User -profile has "bad-screen-layout"

Hi,
on my Old Imac, 10.4 and now again with the conversion to my new Imac Intel 10.4.9 the user profile shows the desktop not very good. It looks just like it's over-exposed. To much contrast, white is very white and the menu isn't very good readable. There aren't much options to change. I tried all the "normal settings".
When I make a new account on my old or new Imac the desktop is shown good. Can I reset a setting so that the desktop is default again?

You may have accidentally changed a setting with a keystroke that's assigned to Universal Access. Open the System Preferences and click on the Universal Access icon. Under the Seeing tab, make sure the slider at the bottom for Enhance Contrast is all the way to the left.

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