System Colours Inverted, what the heck?

I have a very weird problem. My computer (G4 400, OS10.3.9) is showing me all the colours inverted, a perfect negative. This is happening at a system level, it affects all the apps except watching a DVD. I tried opening an image in Photoshop and Inverting it, and that made the colour perfect (for just that picture.) I restarted the machine, and shut it down cold and started it up again. It starts up normally and then inverts the colours just after loading the OS. The machine boots up normally in OS 9.
The last thing the machine was used for before this happened was watching a DVD (that has played no prob before) . Did my kids hit some undocumented keyboard shortcut? Is it a virus? I hunted through any preference controls I could think of, and see nothing like Invert Colour. Help!

Even better, its a documented keyboard shortcut, for the Universal Access control switch to white on black.

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