Essential fonts for Leopard ?

I trashed a lot of fonts because I was having problems, mainly with Helvetica Neue
(who doesn't!). But I was a bit too eager and now certain dialogue boxes from the
OS don't look right.
I would like to know which fonts do I absolutely have to keep.
The strict minimum. Like for example, are all those asian fonts necessary
to the system.. if your system is in English and don't use-write in Asian languages?
I find there are quite a bit.
Is there a list somewhere I could get of essential fonts for Leopard. I would
like to trash anything that is useless.
Again, I do not use Asian fonts, my applications and operating system are in English,
I only type in English, French, sometimes Spanish and German.
Thanks

pitou --
Here's a grat article by Kurt Lang on
Managing Fonts in OS X.
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
AppleGothic.ttf
Geneva.dfont
HelveLTMM
Helvetica LT MM
Helvetica.dfont
HelveticaNeue.dfont
Keyboard.dfont
LastResort.dfont
LucidaGrande.dfont
MarkerFelt.dfont (for the Notes portion of Mail)
Monaco.dfont
Times LT MM
TimesLTMM
Read the whole article before you go trashing stuff.
All the best!

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<blockquote>
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