Font Book stopped working as it should

I recently upgraded hardware/software at the small newspaper I manage. We have 5 new Imac G5's running Leopard, CS3, MS office 2008 mainly. I have been testing fonts that we need for clients one at a time. If the font did not show up in the new collection I made for our paper, I removed it from my font folder in the user library on the hard drive and moved on to the next one.
I had about 40 fonts to install which worked on 4 out of 5 of the computers. The font book on the 5th computer (mine) stopped accepting fonts, yet the font would appear in the list of fonts when I would open InDesign. No idea why this machine would act any different than the other 4 machines. I did not do a thorough test to see if they would print & PDF fine without showing up in Font Book. I was hesitant to continue.
Most fonts were true type and worked/imported great in the other 4 machines. Anyone have any suggestions/Ideas? Thank you.

I'm not much help, unless you remove "com.apple.FontBook.plist" from your User/Preference folder, and restart. Even borrowing this file from one of the other computers might help, if all fonts are kept in parallel locations on the 5 machines.
As another suggestion, how would you like a free manager that let's you keep fonts where ever you like, and lets you load them as you like? It also has free on the fly plugins for Adobe applications, including InDesign, and Illustrator.
Linotype's FontExlorerX is a nice tool for font management.

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