Adobe Illustrator font menu help

ok so i open my adobe illustrator today and i make a new file and went to put some text in and i notice that my font drop down menu is blank. so i click on it to get it to drop down and select a font, but its blank. there are no fonts in the menu. ive tried adding the fonts to the font folder, stopping the windows font cache service and nothing has been working. if i click in the drop down and goto type a font name out itll let me select it but when i goto type something in the font i chose it goes blank again.
im using illustrator CS version 11.0.0
Edit: ive also tried deleting the fontlst files as well
thanks for the help!!

logix,
It may be worth trying to renew your preferences. You may Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (irreversibly) or Move the folder with Illy closed (reversibly).

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