Garbling of iTunes 7

My iTunes 7 works but the GUI is garbled. As a player it seems to be working fine, but the screens are unusable. I thought it was perhaps my Mac mini's (Tiger) graphic card's limitation, but yesterday I installed iTunes 7 on an old G3 iBook (Panther) and it worked as advertised. So I am beginning to think there's something else going on with the mini.
What I didn't do on the G3 iBook was that I didn't install QuickTime. I tried re-installing QT on the mini but it made no difference.
Since I am not hearing many more people with a similar problem, I can assume there's something that I caused on the mini. What's difficult is that MS Word is the only 3rd party software that I have on it that I rarely ever use. I use this Mac primarily as a jukebox and it is plays 24/7 via AEX to the audio system. It is connected to a 42" Plasma TV.
Anyone have any ideas what I could do next? Is there a wrong way and correct way to un-install QT? Is there a way to roll back QT to the version that was there before iTunes 7?
Specs: Mac mini 1.25G 1G RAM. OS X 10.4.7.
Patrick

The above image shows how iTunes looks like when I try to switch between one playlist to another. Album covers don't show at all, and if they do they are partially clipped and are also garbled.
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