Can't Do Anything but Restart and Force Quit

Hello all, I'm here on account that my mother messed up her computer and I can't figure out what to do to help her.
She recently had fonts in conflict (extensis suitcase told her so) and so she went into the System Folder, deleted a few of the "problematic" fonts and then this happened....
Her menu bar at the top disappeared except for everything to the right past the volume icon. The rest of the desktop disappeared as well, except her wallpaper.
The only thing that can be done from this screen is open the force quit window, which contains a blinking finder icon and word.
I have tried opening the system preferences through short-cuts, but none of the short-cuts work.
When I attempt to work around that and click on the date on the menu bar (in the only part that shows), the entirety of the remaining menu bar disappears.
So... does anyone have any suggestions?! This is really important because she was working on some work-related files on there...

Hi Leah, and welcome to the forums!
I think she must've deleted some necessary System Fonts, you normally don't touch them.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1538
It appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.

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