Screen resolution acts weird

Hello,
For a year now I am using a MBP 15" with hires screen (1680x1050) na drunning on OS 10.7.3
When doing stuff in Excel, suddenly my screen kinda zoomed in and I never ever could get it back.
It is like everything is around 20% larger and I have to scroll to see the 4 ends of the screen.
When logging out and changing to another user on my MBP everything is normal, so it has to be a setting, but I am not able to find it.
Changing screen resolution in the settings does not help either.
Anybody any suggestion please?
Thank you very much,
Mokum.

Not a reply, but an addition to my earlier message above and that might help.
When I cold reboot, the MBP starts with normal log in screen with grey screen and the users.
When I log into my own (administrator) account, the moment I hit the return, the screen zooms, and stays that way. When I log into any of the other 2 users, the screen stays normal.
Thank you
Mokum.

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<START OF RANT>
Having recently decided to upgrade all my design software, I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I was (and still am) to find that after spending £231.12 GBP on buying Photoshop CS5 (upgrade from CS2) I'm unable to "Save As" and access some other features on my Acer Ferrari One due to the minimum screen resolution requirement. And before you start preaching that I should have checked, blah, blah, blah, and that it's my own fault then I only have 2 words for you: F*** O**!!! Why am I reacting like this? Simples, both Photoshop CS2 and Dreamweaver CS5 (for a mere £219.95 GBP) work fine on the very same netbook without any problems!!!
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</END OF RANT!!!>

<Start of Reply>
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<Just keep on RANTING if it make you feel GOOD>
CS2 Works the Problem is all YOU
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I think he means to insult Adobe, and not we fellow users.
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</End of Reply>

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TokkieTor,
This is the full error message I got from the test:
4SNS/1/40000000: IP0R-9:166
I read that those letters (IP0R) stand for different errors in the hardware, in my case it's something with the Power Bus according to this website: http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-invoke-and-interpret-the-apple-hardware-tests/.
Again, I'm really not into tech so what is a Power Bus and should I be worried?
what you have is a problem with a sensor which monitors power bus current. The power bus is the main pathway along which electricity travels in your MacBook Pro. If the sensor isn’t individually repairable, then you could have reason to worry — if they tell you that a logic board replacement would be needed, then that could cost hundreds of euros. (One would hope that replacing a sensor would not require a logic board replacement, but only hardware experts can say for sure.)
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