I have a very decent set of drivers installed for my card, works wonders in other things.
The first four effects in visual effects were already disabled, however I don't see how those would effect them (animate windows, fade/slide menus, fade/slide tooltips, fade out menus), but speaking of Alpha Blending, I don't think my video card supports that at all (it's an older 16mb voodoo banshee, which although was awesome in some situations is very picky) so I guess I'll just deal with it.
Thanks anyways!