14" imac 1.83GHz LCD screen suddenly too bright

My computer screen is suddenly too bright with a sort of a white washed look. I've checked the display settings and brightness in System Preferences and played with the greyscale and white on black options in the Universal Access panel, all to no avail.
I hooked up an LCD projector and the projected image is perfectly normal while the computer display is impossible to read. Even the most dim setting is too bright. Help!

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System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing tab > slide the Enhance contrast slider to Normal.

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