Block diagrams messed up: Win 7 or LabVIEW 1012?

Hi, Everybody --
We just got a new computer for the lab here, and I held off on installing LabVIEW 2012 until after the new machine was installed.  All of our computers have been running XP until the new one arrived; it's running Windows 7, and it now has LabVIEW 2012 loaded.
The first time I opened a VI and looked at its block diagram on the new computer, I was floored by how lousy it looked.  Icons wereoverlapping, constants and controls were misaligned, the font sizes had changed, and, in general, the whole diagram was a mess.  I though it just might have been that one, so I opened others and they all look like they were put together by 5-year olds.  (No, I can't drink at work.)
Is this a Windows 7 "feature" or something new with LabVIEW 2012?  I haven't had a chance to install or work with 2012 on the remaining XP computer, so I can't do any comparisons here yet.
I have a LOT of VIs written now, and the thought of having to redo all of them so they're readable is giving me the bad kind of palpitations.  Is there some way to fix this problem without slogging in and doing all of the realigning, etc., manually?
Thanks a million for your time...
Mark
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Hey, RavensFan!
Thanks for the quick reply.  I was afraid it was something like that, but with nothing to compare it to, it was more of a shot-in-the-dark guess.
I've changed a bunch of my VIs already, but I'm thinking that I'll mess with the .ini file and see if it'll reset them, too.
I don't know if you remember, but you wrote to me last year and said that, if the Ravens went 15-1 and lost only to the Texans, that would be fine with you, as long as they got into the playoffs again.  Well, you were just slightly off with the season record, but it turns out that you were aiming pretty modestly about the playoffs!  Congrats, etc.!
They've been making a big stink here in Houston these days about Ed Reed's not being honest about his injury situation.  Nothing is ever easy...
Thanks again for the quick reply (as usual!) --
Mark

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