Large, pixelated desktop (all login screens ok)

The cat was sitting on the keyboard of the laptop, so I'm hoping this is just a quick fix with a few keystrokes.
Kicked the cat off the keyboard and the screen was grey, but a shadow would run across the screen as I touched the track pad. I rebooted in safe mode, the apple and spinning wheel looked fine, the Mac OSX booting window came up, and the login box all looked fine. I even got to my desktop picture which looked fine as well (no files or dock visible, just the picture) and then it's like it does a hyper zoom and I've got these 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" pixels on my screen. They respond to the track pad, so they change colors. I have no idea how to fix this. Any suggestions?
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Answered my own question! whew
command + option + "-" did the trick and zoomed me back to normal.
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