Can I move fonts??

I always lose fonts when I move on to a new Mac OS. I would like to know if I can take all the fonts that are in /Library/Fonts and put them in Users/[me]/Library/Fonts. This way I can have them in my home folder when I backup, and won't lose them because they are in the library folder. I know not to touch any fonts in the System folder, but I just would like to move all of my fonts from Library/Fonts to my Users/Library/Fonts folder.
Thanks,
Bryan

I've spent an hour searching the web and reading pages, and some apple documents. Duplicates are not an issue, since I did a clean install, and just installed Office 2008, which puts the fonts in a nice folder within Fonts called Microsoft.
So I moved the microsoft folder to my users/library/fonts folder, then in the fonts folder, I created a folder called Apple, for all the fonts I had in my /library/fonts folder.
Now, when I do a home directory backup, I will have my fonts. I didn't touch the system/fonts. Right now, I have no fonts in my /library/fonts folder, they are all in my users/fonts.
I validated all the fonts, I have no duplicates, ran repair disk permissions, no problems. used cocktail to delete all font caches, etc. Restarted and have no problems.
In what I found online, there is no problem in having fonts only in your Users font folder, as long as you never touch the system/fonts.

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