Font-disabling problem

How can I make fonts that are disabled in my Font Book stop appearing in my system font palette and my application font menus and dialogs?
This problem began suddenly last week. I use only a handful of fonts, and to keep my font lists sparse I keep all but my regular fonts plus the System fonts disabled in Font Book. Till recently this worked perfectly.
But last week when I installed MS Word, the installer stuffed a zillion fonts (which I don’t want, even disabled) into my system, and since then, my entire Font Book catalog shows up in my system font palette and my application font menus and dialogs -- even though Font Book still shows only my few regular fonts plus the System fonts as being enabled, and all the rest disabled.
Thank you.

I've had the same -- a couple of bounces of the icon and no further action without warning. I too had to reinstall the system before that happened.
Macromedia had a special patch for this. I have patched my Studio MX and everything has been working fine ever since. It's still "out there" somewhere, but I don't have the link anymore, since macromedia.com closed down.
I tried to find the link, here's the article:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18933
I believe this may be your problem. It fixed mine after I reinstalled the system and did a "combined upgrade" for it.

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Hi everyone,
similar to many other people i got some of my fonts screw up after MS Office installation.
I tried to restore default fonts in FontBook, but it claimed that some fonts are missing.
There are no fonts in my ~/Library folders: Fonts, Fonts (Removed), Fonts Disabled.
However, there some in /Library: Fonts (Removed), Fonts Disabled which I would like to bring back.
So the question is - how to do it?
In /Library/Fonts Disabled i see Arial, Timew New Roman, Verdana, Wingdings. I guess all of them were disabled by MS installation
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