Stretched 'New Document', 'Color Picker' dialogue boxes in Illustrator CS5.

I opened Illustrator today and was prompted with the "Adobe Illustrator as detected a problem in the windows registry..." message. I came to these discussions and found that people got around this message by opening the program as the ADMIN. Taking these actions myself seemed to work. Once I got the program seemingly up and running again I went to open a new document only to find that when the New Document box opened it was stretched and inaccessible (see below).
I then opened a file just to see if anything else was odd and got the same thing when opening the Color Picker (see below)
It also occurred when I deleted a layer with artwork on it....needless to say, it's a mystery and I was hoping someone could help.
Thank you!
UPDATE: Upon further investigations, this appears to be happening to ALL of the dialogue boxes. And that it only appears to be happening to Illustrator, not Photoshop or InDesign.

Hello John.
And thanks for the quick reply.
It's happening in the CMYK color mode. That's why it's so strange.
In more than 10 years off experience with Illustrator I've never seen nothing like this.
When searching for help in the forums I've read about some color situation with CS6 and the new Lab association. But I supose it didn't "contaminate" CS5.5. Unless it did.. in some update. Hope not.
Thank you, once again.

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