Font book will not load

When I try to open font book I get the message that font book has quit unexpectedly and:
"Mac OS X and other applications are not affected.
Click Reopen to open the application again. Click Report to see more details or send a report to Apple."
The report information is long and complex.
When I open the font menu in a word processing program or outliner (such as OmniOutlinerPro) I get:
"Alert
* -[NSKeyedUnarchiver initForReadingWithData:]: incomprehensible archive (0xffffff94, 0xffffffca, 0x1b, 0x38, 0x30, 0xffffffc3, 0x16, 0x1a)"
I am not seriously held up by this non-functionality but it the fact that something doesn't work bothers me. I have seen nothing like this problem posted in discussions.
Any suggestions for a remedy?

One of your FontCollections has become corrupt.
Find the following files and move them to the Desktop to disable them:
/Users/~/Library/FontCollections/com.apple.Favorites.collection
/Users/~/Library/FontCollections/com.apple.Recents.collection
Then see if you still have the problem. (You may need to re-launch the application you were having problems in).
Font Collection files are stored as (keyed) archives, and NSCoder chokes on them when it can't understand the data in them.
Hope this helps....
Dual 2.7GHz PowerPC G5 w/ 2.5 GB RAM; 17" MacBook Pro w/ 2 GB RAM - Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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If you're going to use another person's wisdom here, […]
[…] It's considered good manner here. […]
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