CS6 Font Selection Annoyance

Please help me with what I find to be one of the most annoying things about Premeire Pro (5 and 6). When I go to make a simple still title I have to fight the system to select the font and font features. When I change the font and then click the yype tool, it constantly reverts back to the default which is some weird unprintable font that is alphabetically at the top of the list. The only way I can get what I want reliably is to type out a few unreadbile characters in the default font, select them, change the font and then type the letters I want. I've tried lots of different steps but this is the only way it works for me.
Been using WYSIWYG for many years and they all pretty much work the same except for this piece of Premiere.
Can anyone teach me a simple sequence wherein I can set the font, click on the type too and just start typing?

This is how I removed Absalom from my font list:
To remove a font from the hard disk, follow these steps:
Click Start, and then click Run.
Type the following command, and then click OK: %windir%\fonts
Click the font that you want to remove. To select more than one font at a time, press and hold the CTRL key while you select each font.
On the File menu, click Delete.
When you receive the "Are you sure you want to delete these fonts?" prompt, click Yes.
Note You can prevent a font from loading without removing it from the hard disk. To do this, move the font from the Windows\Fonts folder to another folder.

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Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0
Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Date/Time: 20141218 20:20:16 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft Word
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Word
Application Signature: MSWD
Application Version: 14.4.7.141117
Crashed Module Name: MicrosoftMenuLibrary
Crashed Module Version: 14.4.7.141117
Crashed Module Offset: 0x00007165
Blame Module Name: MicrosoftMenuLibrary
Blame Module Version: 14.4.7.141117
Blame Module Offset: 0x00007165
Application LCID: 1033
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0409
Crashed thread: 0
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-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 May 9 2014 Arial Black
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 May 9 2014 Arial Narrow
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 May 9 2014 Arial Rounded Bold
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-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 May 9 2014 Comic Sans MS
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 May 9 2014 Georgia
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 root admin 0 May 9 2014 Gill Sans Ultra Bold
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Erase and Install 10.10.1 (MAS > createinstallmedia)
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CS6 font selector is a UI fail

Please put the font selection menu in the Character tool panel back the way it was in CS5, where it showed a dozen or so fonts in the drop-down and I could actually scroll through the list with the mouse scroll wheel or the dropdown's scrollbar -- exactly as the one in the quick Control toolbar at the top works (why are they even different?) -- instead of this horror-show font menu that opens up the entire height of my monitor and has to be navigated by moving all the way to the edges and watching it scroll hair-pullingly slow.

I'm so glad I found this thread! In some way I'm glad it's not just me that finds the font system in illustrator completely and utterly infuriating.
This program is 25 years old, any other software house would be bending over backwards to make their program the best it can be and this is the system they're happy to let users struggle through? It's unbelievable.
It's not like it's a donationware program wrtitten by a single developer.
I think Adobe should be embarrassed with the functionality of their program. I watched a few videos on the new features of CS6 and it was basically people saying 'this function is a bit better than it used to be' going crazy over breadcrumbs.
I've seen 'Adobe will not admit they're wrong/have any weakness' a few times here and there, well it's about time they started listening to the people that have to work with their program because it's not good enough.
I don't expect to have to wait whilst the fonts slowly tick by and with them moments of our lives, it's a major inconvenience. I don't expect to have to click random places on my screen to get rid of a pop up/drop down menu, the program should know that if I have been adjusting a value and then click on the direct selection tool I want the direct selection tool, close the entry box instantly.
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Why does the color mode not stay on HSB? Who regularly uses RGB to adjust colors anyway? Put a color wheel in, go on, it won't kill you. People love flexibilty.
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Why isn't there a fillet tool?
Why don't you change the tone of the buttons so the different selctions are clear? (Select, create, manipulate etc).
When it comes to text selection in a project why are my only options - a tiny line that's fiddly to click on or a giant invisible box that covers everything? How about if I want to select the writing I could just click on the text?
Why can't we drag the words for data boxes like in photoshop? (eg:opacity) that's a great feature!
And why can't we have gradients on text?!
Adobe: because text is not actually a path and gradients can only be applied to paths.
Right, so write your way around the problem, make it so when a user selects the text tool, types some text and presses enter the program makes a temporary path which remains until a user double clicks the text (at which point the path is returned to proper text) and makes an adjustment. When they have finished adjusting they hit enter and a new temporary path is created.
Basically, there's a lot of little tweaks they could make that would have a big effect on the overall experience.
It's easier to ignore the little things but sometimes you just have to roll your sleeves up and get it done.
That feels better (lol) and breathe......
Ohhmmmmmmmm

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Font selection view control in Web Gallery

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I wanted to be able to change the font type from the UI panel using a font select popup.
This control really only seems to exist in the inbuilt edit modes (eg: id plate and watermark) so I have tried a workround which seems to work OK so far. Maybe it will help someone else out working with webengines.
Mac/OSX only at this stage - good source file in Windows may be font.inf but would require a bit of parsing or get a folder listing somehow.
Basically I read in the contents of the fonts.list file - which appears in the OSX fonts folders - and then massage the contents to get a raw list of the fonts.
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Changing the font type for the cell index numbers.
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probably accounts for the hassles I am getting with the watermarking feature as well.
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Can i change the behavior of the character menu so that the list begins with the current font selected and not at the beginning of the list?

Im struggling with the way the font selection tab works in the character menu.
When i scroll down the list and select minion halfway down the list, the next time i click on the font tab, the list starts back at the top of the list making me scroll down the list every time i want to look for a font.
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