This machine is on Win XP Pro at fixpak3.
The other Machine is a 2002 HP Pavilion with WIn XP Home at Fixpak2.
The FixPaks have been known to break ‘stuff’ and I always ran with minimum updates until on this machine.
The screen drivers added nothing for me.
So one thing that we have in common is that our machines are both running Fixpack 3.
It isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that I failed to notice that the look-and-feel of the FRee Republic had changed between 2 and 3...
Hmmmm... curiouser and curiouser.
Have you exchanged the video cards between machines?