My Power Mac G4 shows AAAAAAAAA on the desktop after startup

What should I do to resolve the problem? Please help me.

Everywhere. It appears as blinking AAAAA's on the top bar and on a screen that looks like the Documents folder. In the folder, everything is AAAAAA's. When you click on something like iTunes, this little window will pop up and say....
AAAAAA AAAA AAAAA AA AAA AAAAA.
...or something like a paragraph of AAAAAAA's.
This more helpful?

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