Buttons in the Bookmark Bar

I use Safari 5 on my Mac and on Windows. For some reason my bookmark bar buttons are all squished on my Windows S5 so that the names on the buttons do not show properly.
Is there a way to fix this? Is there something like an INI that I can delete that would reset the button sizes on the bookmark bar? I hope this does not happen on my Mac as well.

HI Richard,
Post in the Safari for Windows forum here too:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1188
Just emptying the cache from Preferences may help... read here:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/06/11/an-introduction-to-safari-for-windows/#cach e
Carolyn

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it is only a matter of a button. i don't think that this thing is hard.

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:Once you start using styles you will really like them because you can control/modify/use them independently as building blocks as opposed to someone elses full theme design or extension.
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The advantage of a style is that they are very small compared to extensions, and if you don't like they way it looks, you can modify it. Try to do that with an extension.
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The deiconizer extension looks rather hard to read, seems rather large for what it does, and it has space wasting drop downs which are meaningless, simply left click to show the folder.
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