Grayed out screen

hi all, i recently installed a new 120 gig hard drive in my silver power mac g4. i don't have a dvd rom drive so i formatted the drive to boot osx 10.4.1 at work through an external firewire housing for the new drive and a power book to install the disk. all was fine booting from the new drive on the power book.
when i installed the drive at home and booted from it from the startup disc menu the entire screen comes up greyed out. i can still barely see the icons, but i mean barely. like looking through a thick fog at them.
when i reboot into my old panther setup on the other 30 gig drive that came with the computer, everything is back to normal.
any ideas?

You could try a Safe boot. Hold down Shift as soon as the tone sounds, and release it when the little turning wheel appears. Take in the "Color" pane of "Displays" System Preferences. The color profile may be wrong for your display.
If you can't fix it, you can reinstall Tiger on the Power Mac using the Power Book's DVD drive. Insert the Tiger Install DVD in the Power Book, then restart it in Target Disk Mode (Hold down "T" when booting. Connect the computers with a FireWire cable and boot the Power Mac with Option held down. When the arrow cursor appears, select the Tiger DVD and click the large, right-pointing arrow.

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