All menu letters are boxed As - system font missing?

I have this same problem and no one has a solution other than a full reinstall???
At some point last night, while I was working on my 10.4.9 PowerMac G4, something happened and my menu fonts all turned into some glyph that looks like a capital "A" inside of a box. All of the text on the desktop, menu bar, window titles, and the left side of a finder window have this change. Files displayed within a finder window, however, do not.
Does anyone have any idea of what might have gone broken to cause this, and ideas on what I can do to try to fix it? I'd rather not reinstall if that's an option.
I've run Disk Utility and DiskWarrior to make sure the drive is up to spec, and it checked out.
quicksilver dual 800 G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi ssack, Welcome to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
Darn, I have seen a post on exactly that problem. I tried a Forum Search, all, but was not creative enough to find it.
I hope someone chimes in. I'll try again later. Good Luck, JP

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