Strange display fonts in Safari...

What would account for fonts not displaying correctly in Safari? Sometimes sections of a web page appear as jumbled, random characters. Often, it will only be headlines, while the body copy displays correctly. I have my display fonts set to Helvetica and the Encoding set to Western (ISO Latin 1).
Does this have to do with a conflict of another Helvetica with the System Helvetica dfont?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Actually I tacked on to this thread because the symtom was the same. I have very few fonts installed.
in Classic's /System Folder/Fonts:
- Chicago
- Courier (Type 1)
- Geneva
- Helvetica (Type 1)
- Symbol (Type 1)
- Verdana
In /Library/Fonts: None
In /System/Library/Fonts:
- Keyboard.dfont
- LastResort.dfont
- LucicaGrande.dfont
- Monaco.dfont
- Some Asian fonts
In ~/Library/Fonts
- MS PMincho.ttf
- MT Extra
- QuickBooks Fonts
- Monotype Sorts
- MS Gothic.ttf
- MS Mincho.ttf
- MS PGothic.ttf
Finally, via Suitcase, I have enabled:
- Arial
- Arial Narrow
- Times
- Times New Roman
- Courier New
But I've worked like this for a couple of years, with this small start-up set, then enabling what I need in Suitcase, as disabling fonts is key to my work, and I've not had this problem before, even when duplicates existed. I had some VPN and BlueTooth bugs I could not fix, so I backed up my system, reinstalled, and then had the font problem. (But VPN and BlueTooth work okay.)
Additionally, the HTML tags PRE and ADDRESS also give the garbage results, even though the typical default for these is Courier New, and it's enabled.

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