Taraben, Adib wrote:

I will recreate the package as "inkscape-0.43-2.win32.exe" tomorrow

Just to confirm I removed 0.43-1 (including copied/edited GTK files used as workarounds) and installed 0.43-2 and the font and dialog sizes are back to normal and colours match XP theme rather than win3.x theme

Thanks for quickly improving the release.