Fonts look grainy...password circles don't seem round. Colors washed out.

Hey everybody, on my brand new macbook c2d, the fonts seem very grainy, much more so then the one that it replaced. The password circles also don't seem to be completely round. (even when zoomed in with controll + scroll) I would go to say that my iMac g3 displays fonts better then this. Also, compared to the macbook that this replaced, colors seem very washed out. Allthough I am now used to it, I am again wondering if this is normal.Is this a common flaw in Macbook displays, or do I need to get this fixed? This is a brand new computer, which is actually a replacement for a broken one, so I'd like it to be pretty much perfect.

Hello!
Yes - PRAM doesn't help.
PRAM batt is dead, has been for a while. I do need one soon...
I'll try a FW drive boot (has 10.4.7 on it), to see if that helps - but it's been bright like this for quite a while. I never really noticed, because before Tiger, all the iMac was used for was a iTunes and OS 9 games playing, weather radar checking machine. Now I'll do work on it during the day - say, when I'm home between classes and need to work on a lab report, but don't want to unpack my powerbook for just one hour. Not only that, but with these space-desktops, the brightness is just more visible. Hmm.... I wonder if I turned up the gamma to far during calibration.... checks
But the question still stands: is there any sort of internal control for brightness? It may have been the tray-loading iMacs that had that.
Thanks,
Dan.

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