Around the sun and "top" and "bottom" of the skybox, there is cylindrical stretching. I am under OSX 10.3.2. Another user reported this bug.

Hmm... I think I've seem something like these... got tons of screenshots of 'em too.

I think that other user is me... I recently upgraded to 10.3.2 and suddenly my skybox is way broken. All planets now have strange jagged edges (looks like the engine is drawing some hidden polygons on top of the visible ones right near the edges. Sometimes I will see artifacts from the interface (?) in the skybox, or a planet textured with coloured noise. None of this was present under 10.2.6.

I don't have anywhere to upload screen dumps, but I can e-mail them if you want.

Other than that, I think that I'm seeing a performance gain from using 10.3.2, which is good thing, not just Vendetta either ;) Oh, and I'm running a G4 with a NVidia GeForce2 MX.

Can I see a screenshot of the cylindrical stretching, please?

Yeah,

http://homepage.mac.com/mcrutcher6797/vendettabug/PhotoAlbum19.html

Yeah, those swirly or umbrella shaped problems are a problem with 10.3.x. I don't know why.

I dunno... I kinda like them. :P
At first I thought it had something to do with rglow, but then I realized that the colors sometimes are not found anywhere else in the sector. Almost like someone painted the stars.

yeah, I've seen those artifacts too (10.3.2, Rev.A 12" Powerbook)

they seem to go away when you set the background to high or very high.

weird.

They go away on my computer after a few warps or so.

I get them to disappear if I change from the extreme top level to the next one down, and then back up. They appear every time I warp.

I get 'em too in 10.3.2 sometimes they dissapear, sometimes they dont. Sometimes I get comets in my skybox...