Arial and Times New Roman fonts gone - Office 2008

About a month ago, I began noticing that I could not see any text or figures in various Excel spreadsheets and Word documents that used Times New Roman or Arial fonts. I had not had a similar problem in the past 3+ years I have owned my Mac Pro with Office for Mac 2008. I can see text after I select the entire document or page or worksheet and change the font - but there has to be a better solution, right?
Times New Roman, for example, appears as a font in the "All Fonts" collection and the "User" collection on my Mac. It does not appear in the "Computer" collection in Font Book, and when I try to drag it there from the "All Fonts" collection (for example), I get an error message that this is a duplicate. Many, many, many, many rounds of validating and deleting fonts have ensued. If the durned font isn't a duplicate, then it gets turned "OFF", and I can't turn it back "ON" without getting an error message again.
Instead of burning 5 more hours on Google trying to figure this out, I thought I would try Discussions... Is there really no other option than trying to explore 4 different font folders on my computer and moving files here and there, thither and yon, etc., etc.?

I upgraded from 10.4 to 10.5 and then to 10.6. On the move to 10.6, I found a number of fonts, including Arial and Times New Roman, that were broken; e.g. would display on the screen in a Word document but appear blank when sent to a printer.
The problem seems to involve conflicts between old and new copies of the same fonts. The solution that worked for me was to find and delete the old ones. Specifically:
Look at /Library/Fonts and /Users/(your_name)/Library/Fonts in two side-by-side finder windows.
Sort both by name, and scroll through the two lists looking for the duplicates.
Note: if one has a file extension such as .ttf or .ttc and the other doesn't, they're still duplicates.
For each duplicate found, verify that the copy in the /Users/(your_name)/Library/Fonts folder is the older of the two (all of mine were); then drag the older one to an empty folder on your desktop.
When you're finished, test to verify that the problem is solved; then delete the folder of old fonts.

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