About resolving duplicate fonts

Hi to all !!
Got a question about resolving duplicate fonts.
Safari (1.3.1) quits on occasion, especially after long internet browsing.
So following Bee's estimed adviced, I trashed the icons folder and checked for duplicate fonts. Of course there were some so I applied "resolving duplicates" and it worked to clean up certain fonts but on other I got a message asking me: Are you sure you want to disable the selected fonts? If you do, these fonts will not appear in the collection "All Fonts" in the Font panel.
I've tried selecting the whole font or only the duplicate within but for these 5 fonts I get the same message.
Is it OK to click "OK" ???
Thanks again for any help, it's greatly appreciated!!!
Eric

Amarq010 --
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
We're other Mac users here, asking questions and sharing solutions.
You have a distinct font conflict. It's probably a free font that you downloaded.
You're going to have to click on each font to see the sample text. It's going to
look like the mystery one on all your menus. It's a small-caps font. Once you find
out which one it is, trash it.

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