For the sake of honesty, I now know why there was the difference in the way the header/footer box appeared in my first picture and the way it appeared in the second picture. In file/page setup/layout/header, I had it set at .1". This is why the change in the appearance of the box. When it is set to the default of .5", the box looks normal.

I thought my problem was in my normal.dot file, but it looks like I was wrong. Sorry for the confusion, but I'll tell you honestly I do think that when I downloaded and installed Adobe Acrobat X Pro, it did mess with the Word 2003 program. I wasn't able to hyphenate, I wasn't able to properly paginate, and when I deleted the normal.dot file, the new normal.dot file would not save default settings at all. Now that I have uninstaled the Adobe program, everything is working fine.