New Jailbreak compresses springboard.

[Pershion]

Since I jail broke my phone (3G) it pushed the bottom of the screen up to where everything is compressed now and some of the words are overlapping the icons below them. I've noticed this happened before and don't remember what I did to fix it, but it's not fixing itself now.

 

[Massie]

Maybe a dock theme that's pushing your icons up?

 

[NickCurtis]

I think you can adjust the transparency of the springboard with winterboard.