Crazy fonts in Safari

I just recently installed Office:mac 2008 for my iMac and the next time I opened up Safari, my fonts went ballistic on some pages (i.e. Google, Yahoo). When I say "ballistic," I mean numbers/letters typed over by other numbers/letters and other characters are thrown into words. The fonts on other pages are fine. Any thoughts?

Mac.Shambles,
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Do you have any duplicate fonts?
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http://i54.tinypic.com/303ke10.png
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