My Mac creating corrupted files

Hi guys,
I seem to have an incredibly frustrating problem with my Mac. I have a Mac OS X version 10.5.4. Build 9E27 with 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB Ram.
Lately I've been experiencing some problems regarding graphics. It may have started two weeks ago. It seems that whatever I create, I have problems uploading to web servers and emailing. They send through, however the graphics are always corrupted. Either with random lines on top of the graphics, or only show 1/4 of the graphics with the rest grayed out, or the image is demented or the whole thing is blacked out. However when I tried printing these very same graphics and they strangely come out ok.
I am a web designer and it is crucial for the uploading process to work, and for the graphics to arrive to their destinations correctly, without corruptions.
At first I thought perhaps I am experiencing a glitch on one of my Adobe programs; Photoshop. This is what I use the most. However I tried working in Illustrator and it produced the same problem. Then I tried doing a screenshot of a website and tried uploading and emailing that image across the web without editing it on any programs or adobe programs and it STILL has a the same problem, and it actually looks worse and is more corrupted.
I am quite convinced there is something wrong with my Mac, but I am not sure what it is or what to do about it It is incredibly frustrating and hope someone out there know what is wrong, or if it is fixable if I attend to something myself before taking it to a technician.
Thanks and regards,
Nancy

Nancy --
I'm wondering why you're staying at 10.5.4.
10.5.8 is the final Leopard, and would be a free update for you.
If you are on 10.5.8 now, change your specs mentioned in your profile here, the last line of your posts.
Do you have any photos in iPhoto? Can you upload a photo without graphics breakups?
How about PDFs? How about something viewed in Preview, not Adobe Reader.
Have you updated any of your Adobe apps just before this approximate two -week period?
Have you done any maintenance that has cleared caches? I use YASU (free download) to clean things up about 1-2x a year.
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