Dynamic Text getting messed up

I have a "Dynamic Text" element called "output_txt". In my action script code, I have this line:
output_txt.text = "I am thinking of a number between 1 and 100";
But what actually gets displayed in that element, after that line runs is:
"thinin o ne etween n 00"
Some of the letters are randomly getting dropped. Any ideas on what could be going wrong?
(I'm using Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 version 11.5.0.325.)

Thanks for the answer. I was actually using "classic text", and I had clicked the embed font button. But I when checking it again, I notice that you have to select a character range or nothing actually gets embedded. Clicking "all" under the character range resolved the issue.

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