Satellite A660 - Fuzzy fonts after IE9 upgrade

I have Satellite A660 and when I upgraded to the new IE version 9 fonts are fuzzy in FB and some sites, very hard for the eye.
Toshiba hasnt released new drives for Nvidia 330M either...any help appreciated.

Sorry if i sounded 'bother-some' :) I just cant help my self get into problems and solve them.( with computers that is) well you're not the only one who says it...when you mess with it a lot. it gives few issues but then you learn a lot. Maybe i should stop this 'abuse'
*Well, fuzzy fonts, well, fonts are bit hard to read or fuzzy. My other work toshiba doesnt have the issue ( older model). Quite a few people on the internet have had this issue. If you have the same model and use IE9 with (NVIDIA G330M) please do give me some feedback. Can you also tell me the driver version of you GPU?*
Have you upgraded to IE9?- yes i have used chrome it's fine so was IE 8. I am in half mind to revert back to ie8.
What i read so far is its how IE is rendering fonts. A new techonology, so says MS.
Kindest regards,
PS : YOu can look at some photos of this issue in this article
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/152094-blurry-text-ie9-firefox-4-read.html
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