[Maced] Challenge - MacBook

[Quentin Hall]

Dear All,


Here's one that I've bumped into with 10.4 (MacBook) and now again on  
a late model 10.5 (MacBook) 4 times.


1)	Image (especially on the DOCK) is "over saturated colour" with the  
text "chunky" when you have a close look at a folder name for  
instance.   Yes, yes YES. I've checked APPEARANCE System Preference.   
Yes, MONITORS are all "default" - we'll have none of that easy stuff  
here!


2)	Log out and go into another USER ACCOUNT - problem goes.


3)	Log back to "troubled USER ACCOUNT" and after about 1 or 2 seconds  
after the FINDER has finished loading (which looks just fine), it  
snaps to this hideous look.


4)	It's obviously a local USER problem .plist or the such.  I've  
removed the entire user PREFERENCES contents and it's STILL happening  
on restart.


5)	I've checked Apple's website and the Internet. I've found 2 others  
suffering but all the "helpful novice" fixes aren't - they just say  
"oh, it MUST be your resolution or "FONT SMOOTHING STYLE".    Many  
helpful folk then ask for "a screen snap of the problem".  I assure  
you that the screen snap, when viewed on another Mac looks "just  
fine".  The only way I've found to fix it is to backup the documents  
and kill the USER account, remake a new one and the problem goes.




Has ANYONE actually found out what causes this????  Some suggestions  
even to TRY would be nice.  I see no clue other than they have all  
been MacBooks and it only hits a single "standalone" account.