Courier 13 font weirdness in Snow Leopard

Since I updated to Snow Leopard a few days ago, I've had several web pages show gibberish or letter dropouts. After quite a bit of checking settings, resetting Safari, and clearing caches, and comparing the settings to my Mac running Tiger that does not have this problem, I've noted that on the Snow Leopard Mac's the "Fixed Width Font" in Safari>Preferences>Appearance>Fixed Width Font box does not list the name Courier 13, as it does on the Tiger Mac. Instead, it shows a "u" with an umlaut in the box where the font name belongs. If I try to select Courier again, I get additional and other weird characters but not the name Courier. If I select another fixed width font, like Courier New, the font lists appropriately and the web pages display accurately. So something is weird with Courier in Safari in Snow Leopard. This has happened on both my Mac's running Snow Leopard.

Did you restart Safari???
(I'm looking for the other threads . . .)
Look around here .. .
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?objID=c263&search=Go&q=Courier
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