Messed up letters...very strange

take a look at this
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i84/reklss41/Picture3.png
well i have a macbook with 2.0 C2D 1 gig of ram... and it always seemed to do this when i got it new...its normal when you start it up but it happens when like you just leave itunes open playing nothing...i tryed deleting all the com. and plist files then restarting itunes but that didnt help... reinstalled itunes that didnt help.... any ideas?
macbook c2d 1 gig Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Re-install itunes, its recreating the text overlapping itself.

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