[Puke]

no, its not dirty jpegs. its the background screen color. my desktop is black and my default background window color is light gray. this reduces contrast and makes my screen easier to stare at for hours on end. in fact, all my windown colors are 'muted' to make it easier on the eyes.

I have little rectangles of background color inbetween "change" and "Othaglor&Cane", between "A Texrak Tale" and "Influences" and another larger grey rectangle from below "influences" to the bottom of the left hand bar. its because you set the background color to white on the rest of the screen, but not on that lefthand bar.

I see what you mean about the compression artifacts on the JPEGS. it is not those that I am talking about. Set your own background window color (the color that you want to appear in text boxes and explorer windows and such to a light grey (or any other color besides white) and you will see exactly what I mean.