Disabled fonts appearing in Photoshop CS4

I have over 1700 fonts on my Mac Pro and most of them are disabled through Font Book.
However, Photoshop CS4 still shows me all of them in the font face pull downs which is murder having to scroll through all of them, esp. when I shouldn't have to since they're disabled.
Am I wrong in thinking that they should not show up when they're disabled?
Is this a Photoshop bug? (This happens with Illustrator too.)

It sure seems that from many of the recent posters that there is a great lack of understand how to keep MAC OS X running properly.
So, does anyone have a good link where these people can read and become educated on this?
Even a simple google search will get you started.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=hnHfSoLWJYisMO_bpO0N&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=resul t&cd=1&ved=0CAoQBSgA&q=mac+os+x+maintenance&spell=1

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