Displaying weird characters

I am having display problems with my itunes software. Way back, I was reorganizing my fonts collection, and I may have accidently deleted a default font. Now whenever I open iTunes, everything is displayed in some type of Japanese font, and it doesnt happen just for iTunes, there are a few programs where the fonts are displayed differfently. I tried checking the Help, but no use.
Anyone know how to fix this, I will gladly appreciate. I really want this problem solved.
I provided a screenshot to better seee my problem.
http://i1.tinypic.com/1zzlzip.jpg
Thank You in advance!
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.4)   http://i1.tinypic.com/1zzlzip.jpg

Have a look at Kurt Lang's article, Font management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther.

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