Green menubar & "bad" colors in all apps on G5

This problem surfaced when I first installed 10.5 months ago, & persists after fully erasing disk & reinstalling with 10.5.2 -- and did NOT occur under 10.4.x or before.
I have a blue-green menubar at top (main menubar) since 10.5 was installed -- ALSO
All colors in any image viewed -- i.e, .jpg or other photo images in image-oriented app's such as Preview -- will be badly distorted and altered unrecognizably IF the image is viewed at any size larger than thumbnail. Same for iPhoto and other apps, as I said.
Images viewed over the internet are fine, but will lose proper color if downloaded and viewed! Videoconference images with iChat have good color, same for online with Safari and Firefox. However, anything viewed in Preview will open with colors so altered that the image is useless.
HELP!! This makes my G5 useless for viewing "field visit" photos for my visit or any image that's emailed to me. I can't imagine that I'm the only person with this problem, especially since it persisted AFTER I wiped the drive and reinstalled from original 10.5 family-pack installer dvd.
Any guidance, any hope would be greatly appreciated, even via email. First problem that I couldn't solve, ever, in 20 years of Macs, so I'm baffled.

I post this so anyone else going through this will have a hint on where to go to solve it.
The solution was simple: turns out that the display used for this particular G5 had an odd interaction with the Mac's color prefs (and that same monitor works perfectly with all other Macs!)-- I have NO idea regarding cause or in what the mixup is rooted, so if someone at Apple wants more info, contact me! However, simply having the computer boot ONCE with any other monitor causes something in the Mac to reset, and transferring it back to the original monitor leaves the colors set properly, and the problem disappears.
Something very subtle is happening, here -- and someone with more tech and system-software background than I have might want to put some thought into this. It will rear its nasty little head in other situations, I'll bet on that. Feel free to email me if you want more data.
Problem monitor was ANY projection monitor, and in this case specifically a XR-30X DLP projector. Note that this was NOT a problem with simple color-table or color values - everything displays perfectly, even in complex color depth, just fine EXCEPT the color of the menubar and the colors are totally distorted in any image above thumbnail size in ANY image format in any application displaying photo quality images (that draws its color table from the computer rather than from internet instructions). AND note that the projector handles the colors properly when the VGA cable is transferred to it from another monitor, and afterward, so the miscue is happening on the computer end, not in the projector. Only if the computer was booted from the projector does the interaction occur. Get the drift? Thanks! Let me know if more info is useful, and I'll email it or post it here or as instructed.

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