Display settings problem

I have a G4 Powerpc mac, 533 mhz, 256 MB of RAM. I was using Mac OS X Panther for the longest time and everything worked very well. I upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger and in the beginning everthing was fine, but now my moniter has gone crazy on me. I have a Hewlett Packard Pavilion PS 70 moniter, the problem is that the screen is very wide, height is okay, I have to use the horizantel button to move from one end of the screen to the other. After I installed Tiger everything was okay as well but I did that combo upgrade (10.4.6) and that is when the problem started. These are some of the things I have tried:
1. I have tried using display in System Preferences, to no avail.
2.fixing it using the horizental and vertical scrolls on the moniter.
3. zapping the pram
Should I buy a new moniter? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you and God Bless You.

I do notice something interesting. The displays settings interface in tiger looks like the one in panther.the one in panther has resolutions, refresh rate, and colors, where as the one in the new admin account has the resolution and refresh rate in one box. Also I remember when I upgraded to Mac OS 10.4.6 using software update, during the update the computer froze and I had to reboot. When I tried to update again it just started downloading where it left off. I don't know maybe the operating systems got messed up. Just thought I would mention it though.

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