Account Specific Monitor Problems

I recently started having a problem where my screen colors are washed out and the text has a washed out grainy appearance. I have been having a few odd spinning beach ball lags lately when the network was being accessed, but it got serious today when I was trying to import at webconnect file into Quicken 2007 and it locked up. After that, my monitor display looks terrible. Really weird color things are going on. For example in Excel what used to be green highlighted cells with black text are no longer highlighted and the text font is green instead. The blue shading in the Mac OK buttons etc looks washed out and not fully filling the button. Messing with the monitor controls and trying to calibrate it are no help.
The odd thing is that when I log into another account on this machine the display is fine. None of the color changes in Excel are present, the screen text is clear and sharp, color of buttons and scroll bars are fine.
I have run cocktail and cleared all my user and system caches. I did not clear the caches of the other account that is working OK.
Any ideas why this is happening to just one account and not the other? I guess that means it can;t be a hardware issue at least.

I figured it out. I found a comment in another post that this might be the contrast setting in the Universal Access System Preference. Sure enough when I checked my contrast slider it was in the middle, and when I slid it to the far left back to normal all my screen settings returned to normal. This explains why it was user specific.
I'd like to disable Universal Access, or at least the keyboard shortcut to control the contrast settings, which I probably hit by accident when trying to bring up force quit.

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Thanks for the suggestion, Charles.
I eliminated hardware as a culprit early in the troubleshooting process, since internet connectivity was still robust.
I also thought that the Directory Access information may have been to blame; that's why I went so far as to do a combo updater (as a sort of "whack on the head" measure).
But when I was able to log on the same Mac using a different account and I did not experience the issue, I started looking at account-specific issues.
From what I understand, Directory Access (SMB inclusive) are system-wide settings affecting all user accounts. Given that assumption, I was thinking there might be some sort of user-specific preference file that might be to blame here, but I don't want to just start blowing out .plist files willy-nilly until I can obtain a better understanding of which one(s) might be at fault.
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