Colors washed out after restart

I recently had a system wide spinning beach ball, couldn't launch Terminal or Activity Monitor so I was forced to restart the machine.
When I logged into my main user, all the colors were washed out and hazy. The highlight colors look different, some light colored web images are nearly invisible. Everything just sort of glows.
If I log in as a different user, everything looks normal. When I switch back, the washed out colors return. I thought I found the answer online, and ran DMProxy, but this has no effect.
I tried calibrating the display in Display Calibrator, but all that has done so far is create different looking washed-out displays. Switching to the default "Cinema HD Display" profile (which my other two user accounts are also using) just reverts back to the original washed-out display.
Does anyone have any ideas? This is really frustrating and I hope I don't have to reinstall OS X over this.
Thanks!
Power Macintosh G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Amazing! I looked at the Universal Access panel and saw that the contrast was dialed way up.
Now I think I know what happened - when my Finder was hanging before the restart, I went through a comprehensive PLOKTA (Press Lots of Keys To Abort) sequence hitting about every key combination I could think of - I must have hit the contrast up hotkey - Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-period.
Man... I never would have figured that out.
Thank you!!!
Power Macintosh G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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