Font Book Works Great - What am I missing?

I rejected Font Book a long time ago. But I recently bought a new MBP and decided to give everything that ships with OS X Leopard a new try. Most notable was my experience with Font Book. I started playing with Font Book in lieu of FontExplorer X which had been working fine, except that it took a long time to load after logins/restarts. Granted, I no longer have thousands of fonts to manage. But I still open a lot of documents that use fonts that I don't always want active.
With Font Book in Leopard it appears that as long as Font Book has a font in a library, even though the font location is not in one of the "official" user or systemwide font folders, then it will nevertheless render and print it in the application--everything from the Adobe CS4 suite to MS Office 2008 and others. Even though the font is NOT shown to be active in Font Book, it seems to work as though it IS active when needed. After the document is closed the font remains "off." Very cool.
I can still see the advantages of Suitcase, FontExplorer X Pro, etc. for production shops or large design studios. But Font Book now seems almost too good to be true for more typical users. In earlier OS X versions it seemed to be next to worthless. Am I missing something or has Font Book really become as great a tool as it appears?

It sounds like the bugs in the Autoactivation feature described in this article may have been fixed, at least in your experience.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9655

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