ok, before i took the new screen shot i opened a folder window and made half of it visible on the right monitor and the other half visible on the left, took a screen grab of it and looked at it in fireworks. There was no visible distortion as is seen while looking at the monitors. This does not happen in the windows xp shell, also I no longer think that this error is confined to nonstep because it also happens in the default litestep theme "Austerity".

strange indeed, its just one of those "litestep" things to put on the list i guess

does anyone just know how to resize the scrolling "current file" info text in winamp?

i took a screen of my winamp skin and set it next to a picture of guizmos so you can see what im talking about. (using the other fonts as a guide you can se that these both are at the same res.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/oneunshamed/winamp.jpg