Can't apply bold, italic, etc. in Mail after 10.4.7

After going through some new font follies, running through a MS Office update I'd been putting off, and then running the Tiger 10.4.7 Combo update (PPC), my Mail headers were all funky with a lot of extra spacing. Thanks to a thread here from last year, I figured out that Helvetica was the culprit. My headers are okay now. But I cannot apply boldface or italic to words in my Mail messages--no matter which font I set in Prefs or try to select from the font palette (which doesn't seem to be working at all, if I recall its former behavior correctly).
Does this sound like something that could have been caused by the 10.4.7 update? Anyone know a fix?
I should perhaps mention that this problem is not with my PM G5--it's my Mini at work.

A little more info in case this will help someone help me. What preceded the loss of formatting capability in Mail was that we got some new fonts on our network at the office and I wanted to put them on my Mini. I had never added new fonts under OS X before and I probably went about it the wrong way. I opened Font Book and used the "Add Fonts" command to try to grab the fonts from the network server (without first copying them over in Finder). This seemed to work, except for one font that Font Book warned was corrupted. It didn't add the corrupted font.
But subsequently Microsoft Word went nuts and started throwing "font is corrupted and should be removed" at me for every font I had. Some of my Stickies notes also turned into nonsense characters. I ended up trashing everything in the user/library/fonts folder. I also took everything out of the System fonts folder and put it in a separate folder, except the fonts that are identified as essential in this posting: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607630
I decided this would be a good time to do software updates I had been putting off, so I first updated Microsoft Office and then updated my system from 10.4.6 to 10.4.7.
The MS Office update fixed the problem with Stickies, for some reason. Maybe it restored a font. After the OS update, everything seemed fine until I noticed the goofy headers in my Mail messages. I fiddled with Helvetica and got that fixed. But I then discovered that I couldn't make anything bold or italic when composing a Mail message (yes, rich text is selected) and couldn't change the font via the font palette, either (although I can still change the base font in Preferences).
FYI, everything else is working fine--Web pages are displaying correctly and all the formatting commands in Word are behaving as they should.
I didn't post this in the Mail forum because I feel this may be only secondarily a Mail problem--that it's primarily either a font or a system update problem.
I'm wondering if I should get Pacifist and try to reinstall my Mail program. Anyone have any ideas now that I have (hopefully) explained this better?

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