CS4 garbles my paragraph styles

I create a new text box with a style from the paragraph styles panel selected. Lately it's been rendering any selected style as [Serlio LH] even though the character is supposed to be helvetica or times. I select all the text in the box and the style indicated is correct with no little + after it but the text remains rendered in [Serlio LH].
None of the styles in the document use this font which is actually not installed.

Just a guess - if you look at the "Basic Paragraph" style in the Paragraph Styles panel with no InDesign documents open, do yousee the Serlio LH font show up in it? I've seen this when the Basic Paragraph font was changed, and when there were many styles based on Basic Paragraph.

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