This is one of the reasons, why I'm still using knoppix 3.1. The last version of 3.1 works perfect for me.
Indeed. I am using the Cebit image which looks much nicer to me. I don't know if it is XFree86's problem and the selection of fonts has been changed but all those 3.2 builds(except the Cebit image) looks different.

Unfortunately, the java run time in the Cebit build seems to have some problems.