1. My first thought is heat. An overheated machine can do many odd things like this. Pull the case cover, point a fan at the internals for a test.
2. Pests and Parasites.
A recent post found the copy and paste function had been hi-jacked. Use to the Anti-Parasite Suite I note at http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6132-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=1313&start=0 cleared that pest out. The Antivirus didn't catch it since it was not a virus. CWSHREDDER has moved to http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
It's your choice for your machine to be Parasite free.
3. Is System Restore to yesterday an option.
Bob
I am running XP with all updates and am having garbled text onscreen in most applications like Word and screen fonts. Symbols, triangles, weird shapes, etc. in place of text. Web pages display correctly, but menus and oter IE 6.0 text, including help screens are all garbled. Any ideas?

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