Do I have a font problem?

I just recently migrated from my old G4 to a new Intel Mac. When I open a template in Pages or Numbers a warning says that a font is missing - always HelveticaNeue. I know nothing about fonts and do not want to mess anything up. I did check the font book. What fonts do I validate? There is ALL, USER, and COMPUTER. If I validate all then it shows some in Computer to be OFF. If i validate computer then some are off in USER. Again, I know nothing here and do not want to mess anything up. Even after I validate the same font is still missing in Pages/Numbers.

Thank you for the speedy reply, Allan. Yes, I wondered if I was looking at a font conflict. How do I best tackle that? I thought I understood Suitcase Fusion, but I have to admit that I'm wondering if I caused more harm than good. I cannot just simply close it, since it seems to have moved my original fonts, and I am then left without the ones I need.
Maybe this is no longer an Apple Mail question, but how do I best move forward in assessing and resolving this?
Thanks again
Lorne

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in bigger companies thinks come slow :-) Actually we are switching from 10.4.11 with Quark 6.52 and FontReserve to 10.6.8 with Adobe CS5 and FontBook.
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"Optimizing font performance" text pops up on the Word/Powerpoint startup window ... (I have 600+ fonts, but it still shouldn't do this)
It shouldn't take quite that long, but that still is a lot of fonts to have open at once.
It seems to have worked for Word, but trying to open a blank document in Pages causes it to crash. Keynote opens a blank or template-based document, but as soon as I try to click to edit text, it crashes.
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