Safari mouseover info-windows problems

Hi all, [Safari 5.05 and latest MacOSX in iMac.]
I am becoming more and more frustrated with a few things on my Safari.
The latest irritation is: mouseovers, where a small window with additional information.
pops up next to the cursor. Such as the sites below.
For me, when I mouseover the link or click.. the window opens up so far down the page
that if I mouseover any link that is about half way down the page, the
window is out of view ...
http://tvguide.co.uk/ (mouseover any of the program names)
Also with this site (http://www.teleread.com/ ) if I visit an article
and want to post, I click on the Guest button and I can detect that a
little window opens but it is down out of sight ... and unusable...
This is happening in a lot of places.
What is going on :(((
Howard

Tks for your reply Carolyn,
SOLVED ... after getting suggestions via usenet and other fora...
In my Safari, use a custom CSS stylesheet because I can't read the really small text
on my big iMac.
The Style sheet is:
body {
zoom: 135%;
That's all !
But when I cancel it in Safari preferences and go back to 'none selected'..... All of the mouseover problems disappear !
I find it strange never mind a bloody nuisance .. because if I now go to
a problem page and zoom in with Command+ it has NO EFFECT on the
mouseovers. They work fine.
I say a nuisance because i loved my 135% zoom - I didn't have to command+ on every bloody page I visited ..
Why does the 135% zoom in the stylesheet screw everything up so much ??
Howard

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