Color keeps distorting no matter what tool I use

All of a sudden my photoshop CS5 started distorting any and all pictures. I cannot use the brushes or the eraser, I cannot use the paintbucket tool or anything. The colored squares (number 1) here are when I used the paintbucket tool on white on a new layer. This is what happened when I pressed the "step backwards" button in the edit tab (see number 3). The white squares (number 2) I used the eraser on the photo. I am in RGB color mode & 8 bits channel. This is what happens when I move to 16 bits channel (see number 4). Basically, anything I do will mess up the color and it's different every time. I have no idea why.
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See if resetting prefs helps:
Windows - CTRL-SHIFT-ALT immediately after you double-click the PS icon.
Macintosh - CMD-SHIFT-OPTION immediately after you double-click the PS icon.
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