Firefox in bootCamp (imac wtih ATI 2600 XT)

Running bootcamp (windows XP) on an iMac with the ATI radeon 2600XT. Firefox looks terrible. Buttons do not appear, pull down menus are transparent, so I can often not read them (since the underlying text is visible). I am assuming this is a video card issue since at home I have nearly the saem iMAC with the 512MB Nvidia, and I do not have this problem with firefox in bootcamp. Also, early on I was having weird red text issues in firefox (which was a known problem with the ATI card, I believe, and fixed with a display properties "appearance" adjustment I think).
obviously this is not a critical issue, but I really prefer firefox and would just like it to look good/correct. Anyone else see this and/or have a solution? thanks
Windows XP SP3
Firefox 3.0.5

Thanks Kappy,
This is true I found out.  The hardware is missing more modern 'components' which drivers cannot fix.
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