Palette tabs turning into black boxes in CS2

before you guys jump me. i spent about 2 hours
yesterday searching through here for the answer and
nothing i found fixed the problem. i was using cs and
had no problems but when i moved to cs2 the tabs on
the palettes turn into big black boxes. i had just
loaded it up and was going to load my brushes when i
discovered it. it is also kind of sluggish after it
loads. any configuring help would be greatly
appreciated. here's my info:

hp pavilion m1170n
system: xp media center edition
graphics card: radeon x300 series (just updated the driver) intel pentium 4 cpu 3.0 ghz 512mb of ram
free space 141gb
colors on both monitor and system set to 32bit

graphics card: radeon x300 series (just updated the driver)

Not necessarily proof that it isn't the driver. Turn hardware acceleration down and see if that clears it up.

Bob

what bob said... :)

how do you do that? under advanced in the appearance menu under control panel?

Display properties>settings>advanced>troubleshoot.

Bob

it didn't work. i even turned it off. i've never ran into a problem in cs not sure why i am in cs2. should i uninstall cs and see if that is the problem? that's about the only thing i haven't tried yet

Either the driver has a bug, or some other utility you have installed is corrupting the UI drawing.