Spinning ball and mouse pointer icons look really low res!

Why do the spinning ball and mouse pointer on my 24" look graphically low res?
I know it's only a minot point but it kind of spoils the beautiful look of the screen.
Tc

Go to System Preferences/Universal Access/Mouse. Toward the bottom of the Mouse pane is the slider for the cursor size set to normal?

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I had heard about setting up the dvd so that it would adapt the dimensions to different players, but decided against it since its a subtitled film. Its just too hard to follow the story if the subtitles go superimposed above the image. And it looks like the only way to garantee that they sit below is to letterbox...I´m also pretty sure I set up my fcp timeline correctly (23.98 anamorphic, but stop me if I´m wrong there!).
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I checked out p 230 of the manual and it seems like any menu with buttons that link to assets needs to get rendered...I´m confused isnt the point of menus to link to assets...how can I do this and not comprimise quality...and is the rendering something I need to do before burning, or does it happen automatically?
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Newsgroup User
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