I also downloaded [link|http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/|Font Expert 2005] ($49.00?!?) and had it look at things. It didn't find any problems with the fonts themselves, but said some of the mappings weren't quite right.

TweakUI -> Repair -> Repair Font Folder and rebooting didn't change anything.

I guess it's not the Fonts then, but some other problem.

I looked at getting the latest ATI driver, but it wants .Net 1.1. (Luckily, that's already installed, but I'm not sure I want to go that route at this point.) Also, the T41 seems to be running an IBM-customized version (ati2mtag.sys 6.14.10.6525), but I can't find the file that has the IBM name tacked on in the version at the moment. I don't see any way to revert to the previous version, but I'll see if I can do that...

Hmm 21 hits on [link|http://groups.google.com/groups?q=6.14.10.6525&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wg|6.14.10.6525]. Most of them seem to be related to games, but I know Office can bring out bugs in display drivers...

One of the threads mentions finding a problem by using [link|http://www.kensalter.com/fsautostart/|FSAutoStart] - apparently another utility was causing the problem in his case.

This evening I'll try a different driver (there are some [link|http://groups.google.com/group/nz.comp/browse_thread/thread/7d5af7669c411e82/20a607f96d8e3a60?lnk=st&q=6.14.10.6525&rnum=1#20a607f96d8e3a60|reports] (last post) that Catalyst 5.4 (6.14.10.6525) has problems that earlier versions don't and that 5.1 may be one to try). Since I don't run games, and since it just started happening recently, it sounds like a reasonable approach.

I'll report back when I know more. Thanks again.

Cheers,
Scott.