Grainy view of menus and dock

Recently the menu bars, pull-down menus and dock icons have all taken on a grainy (pixelated?) and transparent quality on my PowerBook G4 display. This effect also applies to any file or program icons on my desktop.
In addition, the cursor has occasionally a 1"x1" square of dots/dashes that follow it around and cannot be deleted or trashed.
This may have happened after the latest software update for OS X.
Should I take this in for repair, or is there something else I can do?

Hello
Have you tried to check your display settings???
System Preferences > Display - on the first tab there is a 'colours' menu - make sure this is set to the highest setting (Millions)
I had this issue - I was playing a game that reset the screen to 'Thousands' making everything look grainy and of a poor quality
hope this helps

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