Embedded Fonts shift on load/during animation

I am running into a display issue with fonts on a s:ButtonBar in my application and I can't seem to find this documented elsewhere. My fonts shift on my buttons when either an animation is occurring or when the Module (in a mx:ModuleLoader) is loading. I can consistently reproduce this by clicking a button on the ButtonBar, and moving my mouse over other buttons while the animation on the page is happening. This causes the fonts that were hovered over to "jump" around. They seem to position top left. The fonts DO end up positioning correctly in the end. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. (screenshots attached)
Some things to note:
- I am loading CSS stylesheets on the fly, but they are not loading on this page. At this point they should arleady be loading.
- The are embedded OTF fonts.
Normal:
During animation / loading:

It looks like removing all font embeds (use the default font) still causes this to happen.
Normal:
While loading / animating:

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context.applicationDomain= ApplicationDomain.currentDomain;
Then it is just like in debugging in FB, domain A is the same as B, everything is fine.
I'm not a pro in working with Flash and AS, I haven't been in the same case before, and I didn't see any suggestions in offical document about this(maybe I didn't watch close enough), So I don't know if it is common sense while developing actionscrip applications, but I think it's better to make a conclusion:
   Fonts should be registered using Font.registerFont() method inside of the application domains which document class can visit.
I shall confess that I've been careless when looking for the answer, and thank you so much Kenneth and Josh, you saved me.
One more thing, like the font resource i'm using, images and animations are in the same application domain, why this just happen to Fonts? Images in a new application domain can be displayed freely, why cannot fonts?
Andrew.

Embedded Fonts shift on load/during animation

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