How to access my parent's Mac screen

My parents live 90 minutes away. They are 91 years old and do pretty well with their Mac, so long as they don't fiddle where I've told them not to go...
Unfortunately my father has a penchant for going into the preferences and messing things up where he is not supposed to be.
He has screwed up his email AND my Mother's royally and neither of them can follow my directions over the phone on how to fix.
Is there any way I can access his screen to fix this from my location?
They are using 10.4.11 on an older Intel Mac, and I would be doing this from 10.6.8 on an Intel powerbook.

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