FrameMaker 12 toolbar tomfoolery

Hi all,
I have an issue in both structured and unstructured Fm11 and 12.
While they've been working quite well on my vmware Fusion 6 vm, in the last week I've noticed a corruption in the menubar and the toolbar.
Here's examples of what I see
Has anyone else encountered/fixed this issue?

Update: I was able to create another Windows account, which doesn't have the toolbar problem.
Apparently there's a resource or app I installed that caused the issue in that Win profile.
Have you tried setting up another user account within windows for testing?
I'm a bit annoyed with myself, actually, as I should have immediately thought to do this when I saw the issue!)

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