Blurry font in mail

I just switched from a 2008, 17inch MacBook Pro to a new 15inch MacBook Pro. I'm finding that while in mail, some of the fonts become blurry and bold when they are in the background (not being used). Once I click the message or highlight the text...it reverts to going back to normal. This isn't affecting my performance but is annoying. It's much better when everything is clear and crisp. Anyone have a similar problem or a recommendation on how to resolve this issue?

I'm using Lucida Grande as the mailbox font; there aren't any duplicates of it in Font Book and it doesn't show up at all in FontAgent...
It wouldn't have to be the same name, just the same internal number that OSX actually uses. Could just be the Bold or such.
I'd just for a moment try Monaco, change the Point size, see if the number changes with the size there.
found the problem, and yes it was a wrong instance of Lucida Grande
I don't know where that came from, but it seem that the default font for lucida grande had a few undesirable instances. I removed the extra in fontbook (Which were Lucida Bold and another one) And voilà. iTunes is readable again.
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/303187-international-bug-i tunes-mac-os-x.html
Some good font info...
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

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<Preran> For the benefit of moderators here, I used Google to translate your content into English:
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