Dock bounces back and forth, Color labels all black

[swkent]

I have posted this issue on the apple discussion boards and macosxhints.com and not reached any resolve. I hope somebody here can shed some light on this.

I have a G4 Digital Audio Dual 533 with 768MB RAM.

When I install 10.4, everything works perfectly. As soon as I update the OS (to any version. I have downloaded and tested all of the stand alone versions of the updates 10.4.1 - 10.4.6), all of this craziness begins.

• The dock begins to bounce to the left and back whenever I roll the mouse over it.
• Dock icons 'pulsate' just a little while I am hovering over them.
• When I right click on a file, the color labels are all black
• Opening websites with any browser results in a lot of page elements completely replaced by black space.
• Some text in Finder and any web browser is missing until I highlight where that text should be.
• iPhoto completely screws up the colors of my photos. Some get turned to negatives, some get different color profiles....
• My Desktop picture is suddenly 99% Black
• Widgets like iStatPro are all black also.

Now on to the troubleshooting steps i have taken thus far:

• Created a new user with admin rights and logged in as said user. Same results
• Safe Boot. No dice. Same results
• Swapped video card with a known good video card
• Swapped RAM with known good RAM
• Tested each RAM chip independently.
• Repaired disk permissions using Disk Utility
• Cleaned Caches and Repaired permissions with OnyX, Cache Out X, Cocktail and Tiger Cache Cleaner.
• Zapped PRAM
• Ran TechTool Pro (and passed!)
• Reinitialized Launch Services.

I have taken some snapshots to illustrate the problems. Hope they help


http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkwph.jpg - Black areas in web browser
http://i2.tinypic.com/smf5na.jpg - More black areas on OS X support site. Notice that there is no border image around the content.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkx2f.jpg - Color labels are all black
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfkxad.jpg - Text lines missing from web browser.
http://i1.tinypic.com/sfl4d4.png - widgets turned black
http://i2.tinypic.com/smf6vk.jpg - dock sitting off to the left.

http://video.tinypic.com/player.php?v=sfl0le - vid of dock jumping back and forth

Thanks for any help and insight you can offer,

Steve

[swkent]

No thoughts here?