Safari Not Diplaying Web Pages Properly

This has really been annoying me, and today I've tried everything to fix it...
For some reason Safari will not display web pages properly. The problem occurs in different ways, sometimes varying between page loads. The one example that illistrates the nature of the problem best is Apple's iPhone page.
I have a snapshot of what I see when I load the page in Safari.
http://img.torgo.org/offsite/other/safari_iphone.jpg
As you can see in this snapshot, the black background that is supposed to be part of the page is not displaying black. This is obvously indicating a bug as apposed to bad css/styling, as I would think Apple's most recently added web page would be the one page that should display properly.
This problem is not limitd to missing backgrounds (though it's one of the more regular issues). My own blog is not displaying all the text in the right color (the color is supposed to be white, but between reloads some to all of the text displays in black).
I've tried empting safari's cache, resetting safari, and deleting the com.apple.safari.plist file in my preferences folder, but none of these had any effect... Furthermore I've also tried using different user accounts, and as of now they ALL display this pattern...
The only thing I cannot seem to try is to boot into 'safe mode' and see if it still occurs. This is because I just learned if I hold the shift key down to do so without fail every time my system shuts off at about the time it usually switches from the apple screen to the loading progress bar screen, but that is obvously unrelated to the Safari issue.
I'm using Version 2.0.4 (419.3) on 10.4.8 intel core duo (origional MacBook)...
2.0 GHz MacBook (Black) w/512 MB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Bobby, sorry to hear of this.
Good that you tried this in another user, and with the same thing happening there, this lets us know you have a system wide issue.
Since safemode isn't working for you at the moment, try doing a PRAM reset and a PMU reset
PRAM - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
PMU - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
then try safemode...
if it's still doing the same thing, then I suggest you try an Archive/Install w/preserving users and network setting; this walks you through that - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
if it still doesn't work after that -
• back up all you files to an externald HD, CD/DVD, etc..
• boot to install disk 1
• launch disk utility
• partition the HD (you'll see it's ONE volume scheme) chnage it to like 4, partition it, then change it back to 1 and partition it then perform a clean install of OSX
if it doesn't work after that, there is a hardware issue, contact Apple
Macbook Pro 2.0ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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