Singleton, I'm not sure what you're seeing, but based on the description, it sounds like something's gotten out of whack. :-)
It may help for you to include some screenshots of what you are seeing to the
Support Ninjas so they can help out.
(You can take a screenshot by pressing command-shift-4 on your keyboard, which will give you a selection cursor. Tap your Space key, click on the window you want to capture, and when you release the mouse the image will be saved to your desktop as 'Picture 1', 'Picture 2', etc.)
You can then drag the images to an email message and send them to us. I'll use the information they contain to try and figure out what's going on here.