Expert Postscript Type 1 fonts and Leopard Capatibility

We have just upgraded to the new iMacs with Leopard OS and we are having problems with the expert and alt character postscript fonts (ex. Bulmer Exp MT). The regular postscript fonts work fine (ex. Bulmer MT) All the postscript and font suitcase files are installed. They are displayed in application lists but upon selection the application changes to default. The expert fonts also do not display in Font Book or Font ExplorerX. I have called Applecare support twice without results. Has anyone experienced similar problems or does anyone have a solution? Any help would be appreciated.

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3) Having only the outline fonts will not work. You will get exactly what you are having problems with. You can see the fonts, but they will not load. That's not a problem with Font Book, Suitcase or other font manager. None of them, nor the system itself will load outline fonts from a Type 1 PostScript font without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present.
So are you simply missing the screen font suitcase for those outline fonts that Font Book can't open? If so, that's normal. You must have both in the same folder.

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