Strange garbled text all over OSX... ***?

Hey all-
I'm hoping someone has seen this before. My mother has been having a problem with her new Mac Mini. She knows next to nothing about computers, but said she saw "strange white lines" and "garbled text" when she was trying to update her iTunes. I managed to talk her through taking a screenshot with Grab, and emailing it to me. Here's a link to the screenshot:
[IMG]http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3434/garbledsh4.th.png[/IMG]
http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garbledsh4.png
Notice the Grab icon and the word "Capture" in particular. It's my guess that this has something to do with RAM or somesuch thing. But.. I wanted to check with y'all in case it might be something more serious. I had her restart and she didn't report any more of the garble phenomenon, but this shouldn't be happening in the first place.
Thanks in advance for any knowledge.
Leo
Powermac G5 1.6 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Run the hardware test that came with your machine. The instructions for running it are nearly identical to the Powerbook G4 in this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86287
The only difference is you'll use the restore discs that came with the PowerMac G5.

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