noticed this as well a while back with a friend's script. some of his text got linewrapped where it shouldn't have and depending on where the next dialog element was it either would or wouldn't be overwritten with it. also noticed that the filesize of the font being used in the dialog was significantly different between his 98 version and my xp version.

my guess is it's due to a subtle change in the font, or xp's font rendering...but that's just a guess.