I rebooted the machine and now it seems to work.

>I was trying to post a new message using IE 8 on Windows 7 and I am having a problem.
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>When I click on the drop down for Please Select a Category, I get a big box the width of the combobox, but with the contained text only as wide as "Please, Selec", and not as long as the white box that opens.
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>If I click on any other drop down box, I get a big white box with no text at all.
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>I am also missing the sliders and arrows in the scroll bars. I have requested a page refresh, but that didn't help. I deleted my browser history and that didn't help.
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>Suggestions?