Issue with long gaps between lines in both Mail AND Address Book

Hey folks,
I'm having a weird problem... I've done a bit of research on here but I have yet to find my exact issue... I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on this for me!!
This problem has been happening in my Address Book app for awhile now, but more recently started happening in Mail - there are long gaps in between lines such as Name, Date, Subject, From, ect...etc... Plus, in Mail, when I hover over the To and From names, the highlight bubble is really large! It's very strange... check out this screen grab...
I've tried repairing permissions but that didn't seem to help.
My Mail only did this after quitting the program and starting it back up, but now it does it all the time. Address Book has been having this issue for quite some time.
Any help would be much appreciated!!!
Thanks in advance...
- Joe Ciaramella
G4 Dual 1ghz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Ernie,
Thanks so much for your help... To answer your question, yes I did research those topics but finding things in bits and pieces didn't seem to do the trick. Well, tonight I ran Font Finagler AND I reinstalled Library > Fonts from my OS X install disc... And low and behold, MY PROBLEMS ARE CURED!!!!
So thanks for giving me the link to those other posts which seemed to have all the info I needed.
Take care...
- Joe Ciaramella

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