Windows WAY out of scale

[Olaf Olson]

Despite having YDL in place for several months, I just started to use 
OpenOffice. The result was a disaster. Fonts appear to be about 3 inches 
tall. The sheet is still only as large as the screen, so there are about 
3 or 4 letters from the document on the screen. There are no scroll bars 
on the screen, so I can't see any of the rest of the screen. I can't see 
any buttons or icons.

So... brilliantly, I figured it could all be resolved by simply 
reinstalling, or, better yet, installing the latest version.

Unfortunately, I can't install that either, as it appears to be that the 
funky size problem is not with Open Office, but with KDE, as all I get 
of the first screen of the installer is the upper left corner, so I 
can't read any messages, can't see any buttons, can't do a think.

On the off chance that the installer would behave as every other one 
I've ever seen, I hit the escape key and the letters Are  You Sure Y 
appeared, part of the Are you sure you want to exit the installater? 
message. I hit the Y key and the installer exited.

So....... Anybody have a clue as to what is wrong?

I also notice that previews in Konqueror are HUGE and so only a small 
portion of the upper left corner of whatever image is supposed to 
display actually appears. Liekwise with icons and file content previews.

I seem to have fallen into an outsized world!

Olaf