ARD 2 with 256 colors client computers

I am running ARD 2.2 and when I connect to a client computer that is running in 256 colors I don't get a clear image of that screen. What I get looks like four tiny distorted images of the screen that I can do absolutely nothing with. Unfortunately, we are running some old OS 9 software that requires 256 colors so I can't change that. Is there anything I can do on the administrator side to make those screens more visible? Any suggestions are much appreciated! Thanks!

You don't seem to be using any of the afterimage features so could could just use the lighter community/rxvt-unicode-256color package (which does not have this problem).
Just a guess but adding the following to your .Xdefaults may fix the issue.
urxvt.termName:rxvt-256color

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