Final Cut not reading fonts

I've got two issues.
1. I'm trying to use Gotham in a Text Generator. I know I have all the versions (bold, medium, light, etc) in my Font Book, but the only one that comes up in FCP is italicized. It doesn't signify italicized in it's name (just "Gotham") but it shows up italicized every time.
2. I installed another font into the Font Book, relaunched FCP and that font shows correctly in the "Control" window, but in the Video window, it's just random symbols.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

if you particularly wanted something more basic than Title3D (?) then you can grab a basic FxPlug text generator off my webpage which should see and list those fonts in its font list popup ... or grab Alex Gollner's FxScript based text generator which lets you type in the font name and thereby bypass FxScript's flawed font list popup (which doesn't list all the fonts)
http://web.me.com/andymees
http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/final-cut-pro-free-plugins-to-make-all-fo nts-available/

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