Numerous Issues

As of a few days ago, our mac pro has had a flood of problems. At first, the system was just acting slow, and took a long time to open programs. Then as of yesterday, the machine has all kinds of strange graphical issues. Any selected icons or windows have strange black squares around them. Programs will quit randomly. The text to speech tool is always on, and trying to turn it off does nothing (the only thing we can do is turn the volume all the way down). The apple menu has several options listed twice in a row (2 "Shut Downs" and "Restarts" among others). Im sure there are probably other problems I havnt even found yet. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?
Mac Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

The black squares sound like you enabled the Universal Access:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304496
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303070

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