Fonts look awful in standalones built in v5.5+ -vs- v4.0

[Roger Eller]

In an attempt to bring my stacks out of the dark ages of Revolution 4.0, I
am moving forward, but text is becoming extremely bitmapped in appearance.
 I have tried LiveCode 5.5.4, 5.5.5, and 6.0.2, all with the same results.
 In all cases, the stacks look fine in the IDE, but as a standalone they
get ugly.  Why?

For the sake of providing the details, I am running Windows 7 in Fusion
5.02 on OS 10.8.3.  I am using the stack runner approach, where the
standalone is the executable (with everything checked for inclusion).  The
fonts are the defaults from the IDE.  I drag a field to a stack and name
it, that's all.  So why are they changing?

~Roger