Disabled fonts still active in applications!

For some strange reason, fonts that I have disabled in Font Book are still showing up in active applications. This started happening after I moved my Users directory off of the startup drive to another internal drive.
Why is this happening and what can I do?

The database for Font Book is in a completely different location in Snow Leopard. The update doesn't seem to always do the hand off correctly as I've seen a fair number of posts stating the same problem. Resetting Font Book's database should fix it.
Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Keep holding the Shift key until OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally.
This will clear Font Book's database and the cache files of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode. Any font sets you have created will be gone. Also, all fonts in the three main Fonts folders (System, Library, your user account) will now be active, regardless of their state beforehand.

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I have a script that loops through and opens a file, edits it, exports it and then reverts and does it again for x number of pages. The script used to work fine when manually enabling and disabling fonts but not we have had a few font issues in the PDFs and we're thinking it has to to with the auto-activation interrupting the script or something like that.
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Everything is normal, it's the result of the command
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I have over 1700 fonts and most of them are disabled through Font Book.
However, all of them still show up in programs like Photoshop and Illustrator.
It's murder having to scroll through the whole list, esp. when most of them shouldn't even be visible.
Am I getting this wrong? What's the point of Disabling a font in Font Book? Why are they still showing up?

• Yes, I asked on the Adobe forums as well. No luck there.
• Can't strip down to a nucleus of fonts. I'm a graphic designer and I'm often font matching.
• No, it's not just a Snow Leopard thing. I first noticed this at work and I haven't upgraded there yet.
• I'll tackle the bad fonts next.
Anyway, I finally got it working as it should!
Thing is, i'm not quite sure what I did as I was trying so many things.
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1. Search for AdobeFnt.lst files and zap them. (Make sure you don't delete similarly named db files.)
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I've successfully upgraded to Snow Leopard on my 2Ghz intel mac. I had some initial problems with fonts but all now working except that despite fonts being disabled in Font Book they are still active in all applications. As I have 500+ this is really annoying.
I've run Disk Utility. What else? - any ideas how to sort this out???

The database for Font Book is in a completely different location in Snow Leopard. The update doesn't seem to always do the hand off correctly as I've seen a fair number of posts stating the same problem. Resetting Font Book's database should fix it.
Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Keep holding the Shift key until OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally.
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I found this issue posted in 2011 but was never answered.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4094168?tstart=0#4094168
I am having the exact same problem as that user: I have a lot of fonts, but I only enable about 30 fonts at a time using Font Book. However, ALL 1000+ of my fonts still appear in the pull down menu in Photoshop. This causes my system to slow down and Photoshop to crawl.
Dumping my font caches is not helping. This problem seems to happen a lot and at random times. This affects ONLY Adobe products (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator). All my other programs work well with Font Book.
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