Weird behaviour - logged in twice?  black squares around focused objects?

Someone else was using my laptop yesterday at work and now I'm getting some odd behaviour. Functionally, everything seems to be okay, but there is a solid black square around GUI interface objects that I focus on in the OS. And clicking on the apple menu lists two instances of Log Out username, Restart, and Shut Down.
I tried repairing permissions and keychain access but I don't even know what to attribute this behaviour to.
Any help would be much appreciated..
Thanks in advance,
Matt

Matt
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Go to System Preferences > Universal Access and check the "VoiceOver" and other settings. You may need to set everything back to default to get rid of the black square.
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