How to Permanently Enable Fonts in Font Book?

Until recently, all the fonts I have installed have been permanently enabled then a few days ago, I opened Pages and was informed that some of the fonts I regularly use in most of my documents, Optima Bold, Optima Italic, Optma Bold Italic, were not active - Optima Regular was.
I went into Font Book and found that there were many fonts which were no longer enabled. I enabled them all and carried on with my work.
But now, I have discovered that every time I reboot, these fonts are disabled again. Surely there must be a way to permanently enable fonts.
Can anybody help, please?

Thank you for the link, it was much appreciated. However, I looked through it but as far as I could see it does not address the issue I am having. I have already tried deleting the font cache and Font Book's preferences.
Also, since my first post, I have run a number of font utilities and several problematic fonts have been removed.
I tried resetting Font Book as per the advice on the site and then deleted the font cache once more - as it advises - but there is no change.
I find it curious that all the Optima fonts are in the same suitcase yet only one of them remains enabled.
Something must have happened on my system in the last week or so to cause this but I can't figure out what.

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