Resolution Setting

I'm very non-tech! I have a G4 Powerbook and somewhere along the line, my resolution got messed up. I can not see the entire screen for Garage Band, Word, etc. I went to System Preferences and played with various display resoltion settings, but haven't found the right setting.
What should I set my resolution to? (I assume I was in the right place to do this...Apple->System Preferences->Display...)
Thanks

Your screen resolution is stored in PRAM. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86194&SaveKCWindowURL=http%3A%2F% 2Fkbase.info.apple.com%2Fcgi-bin%2FWebObjects%2Fkbase.woa%2Fwa%2FSaveKCToHomePag e&searchMode=Assisted&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.comn=false&randomValue=100&showSur vey=f
So try zapping PRAM. See Mac PRAM, NVRAM, CUDA/PMU & Battery Tutorial
 Cheers, Tom

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