The widgets section in 2.3.3 is totally ****ed up. However i am not experiencing the same problem, but I do have the problem where I am unable to edit the widgets at all. If I try and drag a widget, it doesn’t move and instead hightlights everything. I receive this behavior for both active and idle widgets. I am unable also, to edit (with widget’s settings button) or remove widgets from the sidebar at all. The entire widgets page is messed up and completely unusable. Looks as if the only solution is to downgrade until widgets is fixed. I have checked source and do not have the experience to fix this myself, otherwise I would contribute to the codex. If anyone has further information please shed some light!