10.4.7: Web fonts thicker after updating?

I may just be going mad, but I could swear that after updating from 10.4.6 to 10.4.7 this morning, boldfaced fonts in various web pages I frequent (at least Slashdot, The Register and MetaFilter) appear visibly thicker and somewhat softer than before. At first glance they seem less readable than before, a feeling that may change over time, but the effect is disconcerting nonetheless.
The effect seems to be limited to boldfaced fonts, at least I can't tell the difference with regular ones. Slashdot's story headlines and MetaFilter's story-embedded links are good examples of things that look different now.
I'm using both Opera 9 and Safari, and both appear the same.
After updating, I've repaired permissions, cleared caches and rebooted a number of times, but this issue remained. I'm using Automatic as the font smoothing setting (and have been all along), changing it to Medium had no effect (as I suspect that's what Automatic chooses), and since it's the recommended setting for LCD panels, I hesitate to change it into something else.
Anyone else noticed this phenomenon?

(This is weird, I wasn't allowed to edit my own message?)
Addendum to the previous message: non-boldfaced fonts appear thicker and softer than before, too. I'm seeing this now after the initial boldface shock, looking closer at regular text. The effect is especially apparent with light text on a dark background, especially MetaFilter.
However, this does seem to affect other circumstances more than some. Light colour - dark background is one, and other fonts are more susceptible than others (sans-serif more than serif, at least).

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