Distorted/Discolored Display

I was using my MBP when all of a sudden the colors freaked out. The whole interface looks like a negative photo. Everything looks high contrasted. The buttons are all the wrong colors and I'm having a hard time reading any text. It boots fine and everything is ok till I get to the desktop. Right when the desktop loads it changes to the distorted setting I described. Please help, the MBP is only a few days old.

Open the Universal Access pane of System Preferences and turn off the White on Black option under Seeing; the file which stores this setting isn't consulted until Mac OS X logs your account in.
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