Deleted Font - I goofed up

Anyone with an idea please. I cleaned out my G4 10.3.9 font caches trying to rid myself of a bad font. I went too far. Suitcase X1 now will not start. I had to piggyback two hard drives to copy back the fonts needed for the Finder to work last night. Anyone know what fonts Suitcase may need that are base? Things are sort of working but Safari type is messed up but Firefox is not. Suitcase fails on startup.
If no answer how about reinstall of 10.3? According to the notes, I need the 10.2 disks (who knew) and I threw them out.I threw out all disks before my 10.3 install and they cannot be used (when I restart on safe boot I get a kernal panic). I am preparing to erase and install but looking for the simple but not obvious solution. I definately think I have disturbed the original base set of fonts but other than the 4 cities and Lucida Grande I cannot figure what Suitcase is expecting. Just FYI reinstalling Suitcase has no difference.

All the above suggestions about reinstalling are my last line of defense. I have a functioning system after restoring the Fonts from home mac into my work system. I got Suitcase to start after trashing the Suitcase prefs.
Problem is now with Safari. It "sees" a helvetica that is corrupt and only my home page shows as a mess. Here is a screen capture:
http://www.prepressforums.com/modules/MyUploads/userfolders/ChilBear
Neither Fontbook or Suitcase show a loaded Helvetica. It is definately a bad font but I cannot find where it is being picked up by Safari. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I have Sys 9 disk and a Hardware disk but I feel that I am close to normal and hold out hope of finding this font that I feel is corrupt. As a backup I will erase and install but I have to back up the machine to the server.
G4867, iMacDV Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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