Dingbat fonts not displaying in Leopard 10.5.2

I just spent the day troubleshooting a problem where Zapf Dingbats wouldn't display in Quark 6.52 on an Intel iMac running 10.5.2. Thinking the problem was a naming conflict, I decided to remove all PostScript fonts, replacing them with OTF versions that had unique names. As an added precaution, I archived and installed Leopard again.
When I tested Quark in 10.5, +ITC Zapf Dingbats Std+ worked, but after installing 10.5.2 it didn't.
So I called Apple, and while testing it turned out that other dingbat fonts such as Symbols, Webdings, Wingdings, etc. didn't work in TextEdit and Pages. The Tier 2 tech said it is indeed a problem with the latest Leopard update and that he'll let me know in the next five days what the workaround or solution is.
So I'm posting this to help those with similar problems avoid a long call to tech support. When I have an answer I'll post that.

In showing this anomaly to someone this morning, I pasted Dingbats & Wingdings strings into a bare TE document, and, indeed, it gets the Private Use character substituted all over.
If you make the TE doc rich text, select those PUA chars, and set the font to Dingbats or whatever, do you get the right stuff?
And, while Keyboard Viewer input doesn't work for TE (still Lucida Grande subbed), it works fine in other applications, like Word. Do you think that, then, it's still Kbd Vwer mapping at fault? I find it hard to believe that Word is smart enough to overcome that flaw somehow...
Unfortunately I don't have Word to test, but I would wonder whether it is actually displaying PUA points or is just somehow using Latin points with its own non-Unicode fonts or something like that.

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