Menu Widget is fuzzy.

I apologize up front if I use the wrong terms and I'll the do the best job I can to explain the problem. Some might view this as nit picking but if you're going to build web content I expect it to be pixel perfect.
When I attempt to use the horizontal menu widget and flow it out into my design I cannot get the text to look nice and crisp and clean when it's exported out of MUSE? The image below shows the 100% view on right and a zoomed view on left. The anti-aliasing is making the letterforms fuzzy. (as if they are not placed on whole pixel coordinates?) So the text overall isn't nice and clean and crisp it appears lossy which looks like sloppy craftsmanship and that doesn't make me want to use the widget.
When I place text (non-widget text) such as shown below into a MUSE layout it handles the anti-aliasing fine and the final text when exported looks nice and clean and crisp as intended. So this tells me something within the widget itself isn't set up precisely and thus causes unnecessary anti-aliasing of the text thus making it fuzzy in appearance.
I'm glad MUSE is finally making web design accessible for those who want to focus on design and not coding but I can't accept sloppy craftsmanship like this. Sure it's a detail type of thing but as they say the devil is in the details and this just looks bad and should be fixed. Actually the whole menu widget functionality should be refined and improved upon. It's kind of a pain to drill down into the widget and just select stuff to edit the appearance. It acts hinky at times and will show up when editing and than at times not appear?
But the final product visually should be precise, clean, crisp without the fuzzy factor.

Zak,
Thanks. Yeah it's still fuzzy. Look at the top of the word "RESOURCES" it's all blurry all the way across. It's the widget that is messing up the text. In all browsers it's fuzzy. I can place non-widget text same size font and style and it won't fuzz out. So something in the widget is skewing the display and causing it to anti-alias too much IMO.
I know this isn't a huge thing but MUSE is catering to designers, most designers pay very close attention to details like this and if Adobe can't deliver at that level on a base function like navigation widget than that is kind of lame. I should be able to get the text so it is crystal clear, sharp, crisp, no fuzz at all (Where fuzz shouldn't be such on 90 degree angles. Curves you'll naturally get it, you need it but this has TOO MUCH fuzziness.
The closest analogy I can make is when in Flash you'd place text on non-whole pixels. So your symbol might be X: 45.7 Y: 60.1 and thus the text displayed would be very fuzzy. But if you had the coordinates on whole pixels X: 46 and Y: 60 the text wouldn't be fuzzy where it wasn't suppose to be. So I think the same type of non-preciseness is taking place inside the widget somehow thus causing undue fuzziness to occure in the text.
Bottom line, I should be able to create a menu that doesn't fuzz this much. Either Adobe is going to fix the widget or just let it remain and ignore details that designers pay attention too? The more designers use MUSE the more Adobe will hear about these issues I would think. Than again I've been dealing with the same bug in Ai since CS2 and Adobe has yet to fix that so I won't hold my breath.

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