Default font display

I've just updated my operating system to 10.4.10 from 10.4.6. I manage a website designed by someone else, and they didn't define a font size for body text/paragraphs in our CSS. As a result, in the newest version of Safari, the portion of the site that doesn't have a style applied to it displays in this new, larger default size. I realize that, ideally, font sizes should be defined as relative and not fixed, but all sizes defined in our CSS are currently fixed. The result: my headers are small, my body text looks relatively huge - our site, when viewed in Safari or with increased type size, is a mess.
I'm thinking that I'll need to define a relative size for the body text and then redefine all of the other styles with relative font sizes as well, so that they are displayed in proportion.
Can someone suggest the best approach to take? The solution will need to work on IE for windows and Firefox as well.
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.10)
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.10)
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi,
You need to have Helvetica.dfont for Mail and iCal, and typically Safari, at least earlier versions. The font you report having is not a substitute. See:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
Something must have happened to remove this necessary font, or perhaps it has only been deactivated?
Do you have access to another Mac -- if so you can copy the font from it, if this font is totally missing.
Ernie

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* Title: 
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