Screen is wobbling and shifting

The entire screen on my imac is slightly wobbling and shifting and does it even more when I move my mouse. Now I want to say that it was doing the same thing on my PowerG5 and then I transferred all my files etc. to my new imac (which is one day old), and it started doing the same thing. I'm thinking it has something more to do with Leopard, but I'm not sure. Is anyone having this problem?

If the screen image is moving when you move your mouse cursor, you probably zoomed your screen a small amount using one of the Universal Access features.
Go to System Preferences +Universal Access+ pane Seeing tab. If Zoom is turned ON, turn it OFF.
If this was the cause, you probably enable it by mistake using those keystrokes, or by using your mouse scroll ball while pressing the Shift key.

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