A's with boxes around them??

Everywhere on my desktop where there is supposed to be text there are A's with boxes around them. This is the same when I click on the finder...instead of having things like My Documents it has nothing but A's with boxes around them. I have a print screen picture of it but don't know how to post it on here.

Welcome!
Please look at this post in the Tiger forums:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9319072&#9319072
This problem has come up before but is usually asked in the Mac OS forums. If you need help with any of the suggestions, post back.

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