Odd black box displays

A black box outline started appearing and surrounds whatever icon or field I select or just shows up randomly. Don't know if there's any relationship, but I had been working in photoshop, setting actions, just before this happened.
I've repaired permissions, rebooted - didn't help. I read on an old archived post that someone else with this problem had a corrupted user account and had to set up a new user account and move settings over. How do I move settings over and also have all the same permissions and do this in the most efficient least painful way?
This is happening on my G5, OSX.4.6
PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) G4 SP 450, 1GB SDRAM OSX.3.9, G5 dual 2.3, 3.5GB SDRAM OSX 4.6
PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) G4 SP 450, 1GB SDRAM OSX.3.9, G5 dual 2.3, 3.5GB SDRAM OSX 4.6

This had been annoying me for a couple of days, tried everything apart from a clean installation.
I can't remember changing any of the Universal Access settings before this started happening and I can't remember installing any software that might have changed any of these settings.
But thanks for the solution, I can regain my sanity again!
Powerbook 12" 1 GHz 768 MB Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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