Funky color issues on screen

WHAT THE....?!?!
My friend Kathy had color issues with her Power Mac G4. She took it to two tech shops and both agreed it was something to do about her harddrive & recommended her erasing and reinstalling the OS. So yesterday we backed up her old HD on an external, erased her internal HD and reinstalled OS 10.3, did all the updates, and put back some of her original photos and documents. However after we reinstalled the OS, the color mixup is still present.
ABOUT THE COLOR
For instance, the Finder Icon (the face on the far left of your dock) is regular blue and ligh bluish/gray on a normal mac. But Kathy's computer is showing regular blue and a bright blue! There are also other instances of color shifts: user icons are erratic (like the butterfly and the lips icon), about windows while certain programs are opening, and other instances.
HELP
How do we update the firmware if it doesn't show in the Update window? Should I contact the video card company (it's a Radeon Graphics Accelerator)? Or should we check the color calibration for the screen and/or system preferences? I would really appreciate any help. Thanks!

It turns out she has two cards installed in her computer:
GeForce2 MX:
Type: display
Bus: AGP
Display Type: CRT
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0110
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 1045F
ATY,RADEON:
Type: display
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-3
VRAM (Total): 32 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x5144
Revision ID: 0x0000 ROM Revision: 113-77701-225
Also - my computer still has an extra video card (?) from the time when I had two monitors - could that second card be a problem? The technician at Learning Express wondered when he was troubleshooting, but I didn't go ahead with removal then.
~ This is what she emailed me.

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