Gabriel's Horn, ty ty ty. Your suggestion in your first post in this thread solved my problem. I was trying to play at my native widescreen setting of 1680 x 1050 and lots of stuff (beginning text descriptions and backstory as well as spell, healing and other buttons at the bottom of the display) was off screen so I couldn't read it or click on it. I could play the game in a window but didn't like doing that.
Your suggestion worked and now I can play full screen at native resolution w/o any problems.
Thanks again!