I just discovered something quite by accident yesterday. A client called and said her WinXP system was displaying everything way too large for some reason. I logged in and sure enough... her display settings were fine, but everything was way too large. I poked around a little and discovered the "Zoom" setting. It had been set to 400%. Once put back down to 100% everything was fine again. I then pulled out the old Ubuntu 9.10 drive for my system and sure enough, there is a ZOOM setting there too. Although I can't find a way to force it to stay at 100% like I can in WinXP, and have to Zoom out several clicks every time I open a new browser link, at least I can now see what is going on LOL. So it's a fix of sorts.