Hi Paul
I can help with the first part. I get the same thing. A real pain in the !!!. Not been properly thought out IMO.
There IS a workaround. Every time I boot BIAB I get a screen font that looks like this -


Go Options - Prefs - Display and do the actions on my arrows. You can see behind it that the font has changed to something not SO humongous.


AFAIK there is no way that it SAVES it. I have tried. Boy, have I tried! So, you will have to do it every time you boot up BIAB.
But it works - for me.
HTH
Ian


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