Disabled fonts still showing up in programs

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.
If this is happening to you, this is what I did:
1. Search for AdobeFnt.lst files and zap them. (Make sure you don't delete similarly named db files.)
2. Zap everything in the /Library/Cache/... All of it!
3. This "undid" all of my "disabling" in Font Book. Had to do it all over again.
4. Reboot.
And make sure no Adobe apps get opened at all during this process. Not sure about this but I wanted to prevent them from attempting to cache fonts before I was through disabling.
...Whew!

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