Do you mean that you are totally zoomed in on the page so that it only shows in teeny little text in the upper left of the screen? And if you double tap on the text it zooms in?
If not maybe you could post a screen shot?
Overall, you might try the Opera 9.7 thread in the Software forum here at PPCGeeks. It's up to like 23 pages of helpful information since Monday's release.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=70768