Console Display Weirdness--any clues?

[Buddy Brannan]

Hi guys,

OK, so since GNOME is running so hideously slow (as previously
mentioned), I'm back to my good ol' reliable console apps and
Speakup. Not a bad thing, mind you. But I'm wondering if anyone's
noticed anything odd? I can't explain it much better than this:

Screens don't always seem to draw properly. For instance, if you go to
www.google.com with lynx, the search edit field starts with Go
followed by the _ characters to denote a form field. The first link of
the page says iGoogle, and some pages, letters are missing at the
beginnings of words or stuck on the wrong lines. While this might just
be an oddity with the lynx-cur package (I doubt this), I have a
different, though as annoying, problem with centericq. Instead of
drawing the screen with the high ASCII graphics characters as one
would expect, the terminal uses punctuation characters, as if I were
using a terminal incapable of displaying these other characters.

echo $TERM says my terminal type is linux as it ought to be. 

And while I'm at it, how can I get a bigger display (i.e. 50 lines/132
columns)? I got spoiled by this with grml... 
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