3 year old played with my computer

Our friends visited today. We were looking for their 3 year old and when called she told us she was using the 'puter'. She had several windows open and my wife closed them all but now the entire screen and all windows are in purple sepia with what appears to be black/white reversal.
Any one have any ideas how I can reverse this or reset the colors of the screen? I tried colorsync utility (which was opened by the little girl) but I have no clue what to do.
Thanks for any advice,
Luc
(quad core Imac, 10.6.2)

Open the Universal Access pane of System Preferences, click on the Seeing tab, turn off White on Black, and drag the Contrast slider all the way to the left.
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The likely possibilities are that your child has created another user account or, more likely, moved your "home" folder or other folders within it.
First thing to check, then , is inside Macintosh HD/Users to see if there is ANOTHER user account there.
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If not, then you can probably be pretty sure that she has simply dragged your own stuff into different places, where things like iTunes and iPhoto wouldn't expect to find them. Spotlight is your friend. Think of one of those songs in iTunes and do a spotlight search for it. Chances are that you will find your missing stuff.
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Don't be too surprised about the register and accept agreement messages. Maybe your obviously advanced child has used "Software Update" (from under the Apple menu). Alternatively, maybe you have the cmputer set to check for updates at regular intervals. If so, bear in mind that any newly "updated" software (and there have just been updates to iTunes etc) will ask you to accept the agreements the first time you use them .
One thing to think about is how much disk space has been used. If this too looks like it has gone back to very little, and was much higher before "playtime", then you have a major problem. If not, then your stuff is still there somewhere. Use spotlight to find it if a new user account hasn't been created.
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Wow, that's a potent 4-year old. So there's obviously not a very easy way to clean up this mess, but if we're lucky we can get stuff back together.
It seems that she pulled out everything in your Users folder. When you open your hard drive icon, you should see: Applications, System, Library, Users. It's not easy to move stuff out of this level, you have to type in a password to allow it.
If you go into Users, it contains your main user (house icon) and another called "Shared". If you are the only user on your machine, all your personalization happens inside Users, in your main user directory.
Assume your main user is "lotus_mama". Inside of the house-icon folder with that name, you should have these special folders: Library, Desktop, Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, Public, Sites. First, make sure all these folders are in place. If you see them lying around outside, say on your desktop, try to put them back.
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First, locate these folders I mentioned above. Describe what you're seeing, where. It'll be easier for me (or someone here) to tell you where to put those things so that everything will work again.
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