Dictionary has trouble with one of its fonts... How to solve?

Hi everyone,
My problem is the following: the OS X Dictionary app has severe trouble displaying one of the fonts it uses, I assume it should be Baskerville Italic (Bold Italic gets displayed correctly). See the following screenshot:
I have pretty much tried everything: resetting system fonts via Font Book, manually de- and reactivating the fonts Dictionary uses (Baskerville, Helvetica Neue, and Hiragino Mincho Pro W3; they're all active now) and checking whether I have other fonts that OS X could possibly confuse with one of the system fonts (I have a large font library with many duplicates from art school). Nothing helped.
Anybody had a similar problem and found a solution for this?
On a related, but less important note: when I reset all system fonts with Font Book (which should throw all fonts that are not included in OSX in a separate folder and deactivate them, as far as I understood it), nothing happened, except that he told me all my system fonts are fine. Could it be that installing new versions of OSX over older ones confuses the system about which are system fonts and which aren't?
And: I cannot find Baskerville in the system font folder at /System/Library/Fonts. Isn't it supposed to be there if Dictionary uses it?
Thanks for any help!

mentalmenthol wrote:
In addition to those I had separate font files called e.g. "Cyrillic A Upright", "Greek Inclined" etc. that would apparently only include the respective character sets (counting around 200-250 characters each). These are the ones I deactivated entirely
Thanks for the explanation! Those separate font files are what I meant by "junk", but that is not really a good term in this case, they are just using a non-standard encoding which is potentially incompatible with the Unicode standard used by OS X. Lion's expanded Baskerville is the Unicode replacement for them.
It is quite common for OS X to get confused by fonts like that which map symbols to Latin instead of their correct Unicode assignments. Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic have caused similar problems for many users in the past.

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