S-video adapter not recognized IMac 17 1.6GHz HELP!

Hi all!
Have used my mini-vga to s-video adapter in the past have also used my mini-vga to vga to display on my 47" lcd tv. But now when i plug in my S-video adapter it outputs VGA over the S-video cabel kind of confuses anything connected to it. My 32" tv goes nuts. grayscale flicker. It is NOT an NTSC/PAL issue.
in Display prefs the second screen comes up as VGA,
usually when the S-video adapter is plugged in it show NTSC/PAL
I have tried resetting PRAM, Created a new user, tried my S-video adapter on my misses old ibook and the same tv and it works fine.
I have looked upp the serial nr of my imac it is covered by the extended warrenty but hoping for a simpler solution, like deleting a prefrence or something.
Any thoughts?
Regards H

Okay, first of all unplug everything except the keyboard and the mouse. As I said before, peripherals can cause problems.
Boot from the OS X DVD (holding the 'c' key on boot), and run the extended hardware test.
Let the computer do its thing. Report back with errors (if any).
Apple has this to say about memory:
1. iMac G5 computers work with memory modules (DIMMs) that meet all of these
criteria: PC3200, 2.5V, unbuffered, 8-byte, nonparity, 184-pin, 400Mhz DDR SDRAM.
2. There are two RAM slots. The maximum amount of RAM you can install is 2 GB. You
can use RAM module sizes of 256 MB, 512 MB and 1 GB, in either slot.
3. DIMMs with any of the following features are not supported in the iMac G5 computer: registers or buffers, PLLs, ECC, parity, or EDO RAM.

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