Fluxbox fonts suck after an upgrade [SOLVED]

I upgraded Arch after a month (too long I know) and the fonts in fluxbox look horrible.  They look like a choppy typewriter font (menus, window titles, etc..).  Fonts in every other application look fine (i.e. same as before upgrade).
I saw this thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25864
I tried a few of the suggestions on the thread, but it seems like every other post has a different solution.   Also, some people mentioned changing options like autohinter or bitmap on and off, but I'm sort of confused and don't know how to do that (e.g. font.avail, conf.d, ??).  I typed fonts in the wiki, but couldn't much help there for this.
Anyone have some "dumbed-down" advice for someone who is confused about how fonts work in Linux?

Okay, I was able to change the fonts to my liking using this FB HOWTO:
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Howto_change_font

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