Intel iMac font rendition: Fuzzy

I've just got a new iMac (20" screen) and I'm having trouble fixing the fuzzy appearance of all text fonts...
I've played around with the options under:
"System Preferences / Appearance / Font smoothing style"
to try and remove the apalling blurring of characters, but even on the CRT setting, text smoothing takes place and renders the output very "smoothed" or more accurately "blurred".
I've changed the "Turn off text smoothing for text sizes less than..." value as well, but this just makes those smaller fonts look extermely "jagged", which is the other extreme!
The blurry characters appear in every font, in every application, and only resolve to sharp (but jaggy) characters when less than 10 point (in my case).
So much for Apple's famous graphics abilities!
Anyone help?
Thanks,
Rob.
iMac intel 256Mb VRAM/2Gb RAM/250Gb HD   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Which diplay profile are you using?
I calibrated my display profile (iMac) with Target
Gamma of 2.2 (PC standard) and fonts look good.
OK - I've now done this too, however the font smoothing still makes characters appear too fuzzy ...
eg look closely at the upper case letter 'i': 'I'
On my screen the top horizontal bar of the 'I' appears quite blurred - the bar is about two pixels thick, and the lower pixels are grey, not black. This causes the character to appear blurred.
This happens on all smoothed characters.
I've now set the non-smoothing to all font sizes below 12 point, however I'd prefer to remove smoothing from ALL font sizes!

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