Horrible Playerlist

[Itachi]

Here's some background. I've played Graal for ages and I've never had this problem or anything like it. Recently, I reformatted my computer.
(Before you mention, I have the most up to date service packs, Windows updates, graphics card drivers, DirectX)

With my fresh installation of Graal on my fresh installation of Windows, the out of game playerlist (don't suggest use in-game, if I wanted to even consider that option, why would I post this?) slows down my Graal (and other programs) beyond reason.

-Whenever I select players for a mass, it scrolls down and has to re-render every single name on the playerlist, and this takes about 4-5 seconds.
-When players sign on/off the server, it freezes Graal momentarily to render their name on the playerlist.
-When I open a PM, there's momentary freezing once again.
-Scrolling down on the playerlist also has to re-render all of the names.

I have the same Windows settings as before (best performance, no smooth-scrolling or resource sucking bull**** like that) so I don't have a clue as to what's causing this.

FYI: Running Windows XP