Ugly black spots with open tabs

I recently purchased a used Powerbook that came with Safari 2.0.3 and OS 10.4.6 installed. I noticed that when I open a tab in Safari, ugly black spots appear in the address bar in the spaces between each button or field in the bar. It looks terible andd is very distracting. Does anyone know the cause of this? Better can, can someone tell me how to fix it?

Thanks for uploading the image. Thanks also to Eme for the link - I didn't know this site existed. I have to come out of my computer cave more often.
Haven't seen this type of screen "blemish" in Safari. Not sure if your problem is related specifically to the drawing of the menu bar icons? You may have to reinstall Safari. Before you go down that path, consider installing a customized icon set via Safaricon. This 3rd party app. offers customized Safari icon sets which are much more pleasing to the eye than Safari's default set. Curious if that would remedy the problem?

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