Font Book is empty

Hi Everyone,
I have a mac mini running 10.3.9, it's used by a web design company and they're really happy with it - until all of the fonts disappeared from Font Book. You can still use the fonts in applications so it's not a massive problem but I still need to rectify it asap.
I've had a look in console and have a few errors that make very little sense to me, I can usually figure them out but Font Book and fonts in general are a bit of new territory for me, here is one error:
ATSFontActivateFromFileSpecification failed with error: -4 for: '/Volumes/fonts/Fonts/B/Bernhardt Cg/CgBernhardt.t1' in context: 2
and another:
13:18:43.942 Font Book[489] * -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0)2006-10-24 13:19:59.718 Font Book[489] * -[FBMultiPreviewController conformsTo:]: warning: Object compatibility method has been executed at least once. Convert source code off it NOW!
Do these errors make any sense to anyone?!
MacBook   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Tecca --
Here's a good explanation of Font Book, and how to undo & then redo Font Book. It's from the XLab. Read all of it, including the Links.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/undofontbook.html
Also, this FAQ from Kurt Lang will be very helpful, as well.
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
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