Line Spacing In Mail and iChat

I recently downloaded and installed the 10.6.3 Combo upgrade. As a result, the line spacing in both Mail and iChat have gone crazy! The font size is correct, but the spacing is huge. So, it both reading and writing emails nearly impossible.
I am not sure if it is something in the Upgrade, or something in my system. I have tried everything I know: Emptying All Caches, Deleting plist files, Repairing Permissions.Nothing seems to help. Which leads me to believe that something was altered in the 10.6.3 Upgrade to cause this problem.
Anyone have the same problem? Anyone have a solution?

Have you added, removed, or otherwise altered any fonts?
Ernie

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