IChat bubbles are huge

I've adjusted the font and played with preferences, but I can't get the iChat bubble to go to a nomal size. Any ideas? The images in the package contents look correct too.

Hi,
The IM itself is spread over two lines as the Chat window is narrow.
It is possible to recreate this using the ALT key.
This key when used as a modifier for the Enter key adds a new line to the IM before it is sent.
However I don't think this is someone doing that.
There are two places to change the Font, its colour (text) and one for the Balloon colour.
IN the  iChat Menu > Preferences > Messages you can choose the Font. (you can also chose the colour of the text.)
This tends to be something that looks easy to read at 12 and 14 point.
The default is Helvetica at 12 point.  If for some reason your Helvetica is turned Off iChat and other app will not launch.
However once you have set the Font Size there you can resize the IM in the Format Menu and "re-chose" the Font (And it's size) and you can colour the Font here as well.
You would tend to use this to highlight part of the text you were sending.
However when you do this the Balloon retains the size of the Preferences Font.
i.e. if the Format menu thinks the IM is 40 point in size it will Line break the text at 40 point even if you have  selected a 12 point Font size.
However when I test this a natural Line break (The text wrapping itself at the end of the Line base in Width of Chat window) does not do this.
The Prefs were set to 48 point.
The Format menu was used to Set 12 point.
The "Format Size" balloon ended with several ALT + enter Line breaks
The last IM is an attempt to see if the Text would do it automatically.
Is it just the Incoming Message that has the oversized balloon ?
Are you Overriding incoming Messages as far a size and Font are concerned ?
The Pic appears to show Helvetica which your end could have defaulted to if you don' have the Font your Buddy is using.
However as the Buddy is asking to See the Big Balloon I take it they are not send it like that.
In iChat 5 which I have I have to deliberately set it to Override Incoming Messages
In Messages that I am working with this is Automatic and resizes it to the stated default size.
I am not sure about iChat 6 in this area.
8:38 PM      Wednesday; November 14, 2012
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