Character palette not showing type preview – CS5.5 (Mac)

Hello, I had a problem that appeared literally out of nowhere with Illustrator CS5.5 on the Mac – I've been running 10.9.5 without issue until now when the contextual menu that usually shows a preview of the fonts available stopped showing all but two or three previews (attached an image to show the issue). I tried re-installing Illustrator which didn't make any difference, I then tried going to Illustrator > Preferences > Type and in the options there turned "Font Preview" off. The list of fonts then re-appeared but disappeared when that options was turned back on. I then tried altering the Font Preview size to small and that finally brought back the proper font previews in the contextual menu. They were also present when the large option, however they will not appear with medium selected as the font preview size. I then closed Illustrator, and trashed the preferences by holding down Command, Shift, Option and Control when starting Illustrator backup. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this issue or similar, but hopefully it'll help what can be a frustrating glitch!

This is a problem on Mac OS. Go to System Preferences/Accessibility/Display and check the box that says Reduce Transparency.

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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:30:46 -0600
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Subject: Re: cell background colors are not showing in preview - help? - DW4
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