Emac Monitor Gone Very Blurry?

Hi,
The EMAC last night was fine when I got home from work, I read an email, then all of a sudden the display went blurry - like the effect on some slideshows, except it never recovered. Changing the resolution to 640 x 480 helps slightly but it's still basically not very readable. I unplugged the whole thing for 3 hours and when I turned it back on it was still as bad, if not worse.
Any ideas what this could be or what to do? I think it must be a hardware issue since we haven't changed any settings - all I did was look at an email!
Thanks in advance!
Lisa Jane

Lisa Jane etal,
I had the exact same problem in early March 06 and had steady blurriness for 8 days. My eMac 1.25 GHz is 2 years old and now running OS X 10.3.9 without any other troubles. I tried all the fixes listed in the posts at the time without success. While I was researching new LCD monitors on the web one morning, my wife came by and said, "That looks much better". I hadn't noticed, but the problem corrected during the session. I couldn't determine exactly when. I was preoccupied with my search. That morning, the only thing I did to the system was to update a photo editor program supplied by my camera company. It took a long time to optimize the HD after loading, but otherwise updated normally. Previously I installed Anacron v2.3 pl2, a program which initiates maintainence, that would normally be performed during the night by the MacX system, when the eMac is shut down. I usually leave my eMac in sleep mode. I installed Anacron to initiate the periodic maintainence during my random shutdowns. The monthly or weekly one may have corrected the blur for me, and I didn't notice it on the following startup. This is only a guess on my part. I really don't have the skills to assess such things.
I posted this good news, in case someone else still has hope that their blur problem can be corrected. I bough a new LCD 19" wide monitor anyway, and am enjoying the demonstration advantages this gives to two people viewing the screen data side by side. The Mac plug in adapters should also make it easy to use the new LCD monitor with 12 inch iBooks when my kids bring them by to show us their work and their many photos and slide shows.
Both monitors are still working great, but if trouble hits again, I won't have to ruin my eyes with blur for 8 days, trying to find the fix again.
The ScreenSpanningDoctor program reported in these discussions, and widely elsewhere, looks like a helpful addition to my two monitor new situation. I will try it for sure, if my eMac screen stays good, and I need wider viewing for future work with spreadsheets or photo editing.
Sorry I didn't report this good news earlier. My logon didn't work, and I hesitated to initiate a new account when the number of posts on this blur problem stopped for a while. Did anyone else have any success?

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