I am officially rubbish at SOS :)
It seems harder from the outset than its predecessor. Is that a fair observation? Or was I just better at games back then? ;)
That does indeed seem to have fixed it :) Or at least I've started the game three times and looked at plenty of text each time, and haven't spotted any issues, and I believe it was happening to me every time I ran the game previously. I'll follow up if I see it again, but at this point it looks like you've sorted it.
I'm experiencing odd text rendering issues. Each time I start the game there seems to be one letter which is mis-rendered every time it appears.
If I quit the game and launch it again, it may (or may not) be a different letter which is affected.
I'm attaching three screenshots (one from each of three different sessions).
This is SOS version 6 for Linux on Lubuntu 14.04 with a GeForce 8600 GTS.
n.b. I feel like I was getting the lower-case 'g' issue pretty consistently initially -- I was actually intending to post that there was a problem specifically with that character, but then I started to notice more variation. (I'm not certain of that though -- this version is the first one where the rest of the graphics are working, so I may not have been paying so much attention before now.)