I changed it back to the default Tahoma, and while I do get while it was set up that way (it can be a little bit hard to read if you're using a crappy analog display), at least nothing is cut off onscreen now any longer because the font is too big
Spent some time inserting the Windows 98 .zip file icon group into the Total Commander executable and associating it with .zip files, now I finally have that bit of functionality