Dashboard Web Clip Widgets - "Time for an Update"

I have an issue with a dashboard widget that I created from the Safari button "Open in Dashboard" to create.
I used the widget on the following page:
http://www.calottery.com/win/winning-numbers
The problem is, the widget displays a giant overlay:
Needless to say, it makes this particular web clipping completely unusable...

I would like to do this as well.
I monitor an internal web site that displays network traffic and it would be very convenient to do this as a web clip on the desktop.
Can someone tell us where the details for the Dashboard web clip are kept? Perhaps there are some additional properties that can be added to it from the back end that would get it to work. (A port number, 'https', credentials, etc.) It would almost be silly if it couldn't be done!
-Travis
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is this possible in Safari 4?
I finally have a great use for it and I cant find it.
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Time for another update please

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From: Firedog Date: 17 June 2009 09:49
To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: Time for another update please
> Jochem:
2. Progress on the proper headers in the email for threading.
Yes, please, as a high priority. Two more things to make life easier for email users:
Thank you
Noel

adobe-admin wrote on 2009-06-17 00:55:
I wish I had more to say! Lots of little things going on. Changing caches on images. Getting uploads out of the queue faster. Lots of discussions with Jive on making new enhancements. Gathering quotes and statements of work. Lining up resources. But all of these things have so many processes and go slowly.
I understand the process for new features takes a lot of time, both on
the Jive side and the Adobe side. But how about the bug fixes? There are
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bureaucratic processes, that is just a matter of Jive writing code.
Specifically what I am interested in is:
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anytime soon, whether they please can reduce the timeout on their mail
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and buried. (That would be the "maximal_queue_lifetime" parameter in
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I understand a lot of people are also anxious to see the updates Jive
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to use the web interface there is hardly anything interesting for me there.
Jochem
Jochem van Dieten
http://jochem.vandieten.net/

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That didn't help, I've still got the same issue. :\
Thanks for the suggestion, though.
I made some screenshots of the same widget using the messed up theme (on top) and another theme that works just fine on bottom. This is the same widget in each screenshot, not two instances of the same webclip.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b329/jupitertronic2/weird-widget-issue.jpg
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