Widgets Behaving badly on Leopard

Upgraded MacBook Pro to Leopard, and everything seems good except my dashboard widgets. "Say Cheese" displays part of its border shifted down too far and part of it transparent. "rpncalc" is completely transparent except for the buttons, which are in the wrong location and some of them are clipped. Sudoku widget displays OK, but each key must be pressed twice to take effect.
I tried removing the preferences files for the widgets, and moving them to trash and reinstalling, but same results. Same widgets work fine on my 13" Macbook.

Michael Lindner1 wrote:
No, my other machine is a macbook, not a macbook pro. They are both core 2 duo machines (< 1 year old) and both have all software updates applied. The only difference I know of between them (other than the files stored on them) is the hardware. I'd like to think this is not a hardware problem.</div>
Is it only some widgets that have this problem? And are they Apple widgets or 3rd party widgets?
I would suspect that they are 3rd party, not Apple, and the problem is hardware related, but not your problem - the widgets are not fully compliant with your MBP.
If you post a link to one of those bad widgets I will see what it does on this box. It's a Santa Rosa 3,1 from late last year. 64 bit, of course and completely up to date.

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Hello,
Please see my post in the ABAP forum.
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We are looking in to this. We see this happen every now and then. Not really common which makes it very hard to track down the cause.
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