Dreamweaver fonts displaying as bold in many browsers...

I am going crazy trying to figure this out - I have no properties in my style sheet or within the seperate .html pages set to bold and have added properties to try to compat the issue such as; font-weight: normal and font-style: normal; but when I preview the code in my browsers (safari and firefox) the fonts look bold. I have also looked at my co-workers computer who is also on a MAC and the same issue is displaying on his. However when I preview on an older IE browser on a PC the font is not bold.. I have tried using different fonts and all are appearing bold so I don't think it is an issue with my font library... any insight?
Thanks!
www.jbsavant.com/test/

Did the opacity trick not work for FireFox?
Bummer.
It appears to be a known issue with Mac browsers and "certain fonts". I haven't been developing on a Mac for a few years though and haven't noticed it until just this week with a google font I added to a personal site. There doesn't seem to be a good listing of those "certain fonts", so figuring out which ones will display faux-bold is pretty much trial and error.
DW doesn't seem to use the same font rendering system as the browsers, so it doesn't seem to show there. If you'd like to know more, you can do a google search for "Mac Font Smoothing". Maybe there is another trick out there to fix FireFox.
Let us know if you find one.

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