Help! Where'd my default fonts go?

We use FontReserve at work (which I loathe). And a few weeks ago I opened a Quark file and BAM! ...all my resident Mac programs went wacky: Mail, AddressBook, iCal, Safari... And they stayed that way even after I closed the file, closed Quark, and even turned off all the fonts in FR.
I told our IT guys that I thought FR had over-rode Apple's default font(s). But they went ahead and did all sorts of deleting and replacing... and now, everything is even more wacky!
I can turn on headers in Mail without TONS of space in between them (I have to scroll for days just to read an email), and the only message font I can choose from is Monaco (yuk). AddressBook, iCal and Safari are readable, but look very weird... the font is strangly thin, and there are no bolds or italics to be found.
All I want is to have my default Apple fonts back!
Help?
tia,
e

The advice about Pacifist on the FAQ was right-on. I grabbed my Tiger install DVD, used Pacifist to extract JUST the original font folders, and it automatically installed them in the right places... and VIOLA! All good!
Turns out, my IT peeps had erased the Helvetica! ...Um, thanks guys?

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