no sweat.. I'm another one who does not always read the instructions very well! laziness mainly....

This might depend on the computer/OS etc you are using, It might help to know. There is no provision on Mac certainly to resize the options screen, but it should take up just iunder 1/4 of your screen. Does this happen with any of your other application's preferences? Possibly you have some sort of incorrect monitor setting which could be the reason. Can't help you more than that I'm afraid .. haven't heard of the problem before.

Someone else might have an idea.