Bonnie,
They are readable if you have IE set to ignore font sizes from it's accessibility dialog. But the 8pt on my 1920x1200 notebook is just hugely annoying.
The Taskpad is kinda handy for what it does.. I'd really like to extend it a little bit which was the next task if I can get it to see tweaks to the CSS or HTML files.
>This is weird. I've never used this Taskpad before (heck, I hardly ever use EM anyway), but my fonts are nice and big and readable. I have *no* idea where that setting is coming from. (I agree that the grey on grey is not too cool).