Font Bug in Flash...fonts reverting to system default

Maybe I am doing something stupid...you never know.
I typically use a shared lib to embed, then link fonts. I
have SEVERAL flash files that have suddenly started to do this.
Fonts that ARE embedded and ARE linked to shared lib swf...suddenly
stop working and I get a font in parenthesis (which I named and
embedded) with 'System Default" Even when I re-embed and TRY to
re-select the new font, it keeps reverting the the bad system
default.
If I open a NEW text box it will let me use the RE-embeded
font. If I try to change the font that won't release it self from
the "system default" version...it will let me...
But all the fonts that are in the file already have suddenly
changed themselves. I was cutting and pasting buttons into other
files using the same linkages, and everytime I pasted the button
into a new file, the font automatically changed itself the the
system default.
I tried everything I know. I turned on the preferences to
warn me if a font is missing...and cutting and pasting these
buttons into a new file (that somehow won't recognize the correct
font)...THE WARNING is not triggered...though the font will turn
into a system font...
I am at a loss..and there is NO WAY to repair this in my
files without re-creating them all over again fonts., which is
quite impossible.

I know this is an old post, but I have a big problem like this.
I have my web page built in CS3, I used Anna font in static text. I used this font well, no problems. Now I am with CS4, and Flash can read the font well... inside Flash (editor, not player), it shows it in italics (this fonts doesn't have italics), and there is no way to use in regular. If I turn to another font and then, turn back to Anna, neither. And sometimes, automatically turn to Times or another. BUT... sometimes (I don't know how), Flash reads the font. But the static text that doesn't work will never work. And the other yes... AND I CAN MIX BOTH TEXTS IN THE SAME MOVIE! They have exactly the same attributes, but one is working and the other isn't. You can see it in this capture (note that Anna only has Regular Style)
You can see the page working in http://www.mariomey.com.ar and the now exported with CS4 in http://www.mariomey.com.ar/main2.swf (look all the fonts, it looks the same in Flash editor).
Anybody...?

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Need a little help here. I am running OS X 10.6.6 on a newish MacBook Pro. I began experiences some issues with Flash months ago, but didn't think much of it. It always plays video just fine, so no real problems there. However, text is the big problem. For example, on many local news sites, there is a video player with different video links to news stories. While I can see the picture of the video and watch the video, I cannot see any text that describes the video. In many cases, I can't even see the words Play or Pause. I know something should be there, but it never really bothered me until now.
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Yup,
I came back here to post that I had fixed the issue, and see your reply. Thank you very much. I had looked for a post just like that, but apparently I didn't look hard enough. So, thanks for replying!
The fix you linked to is the fix I tried and it does work. In the other user account on my Mac, there were no fonts in the user's fonts folder. There were dozens in my fonts folder. So, I figured that I would just get rid of the whole folder, since it's obviously not necessary. And it worked! There is obviously a conflicting font in the user fonts folder that is causing mayhem.
As an aside, After I had installed an update to Snow Leopard in the fall of 2010, I began having these problems. I also starting having problems when downloading documents in Microsoft Word around the same time. There was also invisible text there, too. I would have to select all and switch to a different font, which is clearly not a good solution. I was finally able to fix that issue. It too was a conflicting font. Must be a similar issue! Probably a bug somewhere along the line...
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