Firefox and Font Problems

So, I upgraded to 10.5 today. I am running firefox 3.0 and after my upgrade, all of my fonts in firefox are messed up. Some of the letters are all squished together and the lines are spaced out really far, like when i do a google search. any ideas on how this can be fixed?

start by checking your fonts. have you installed any yourself? open Font Book and resolve duplicates and validate all fonts. this is often enough.
it that doesn't help, follow the troubleshooting steps in [this link|http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html] (scroll to fonts 911).

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