Font files corrupted via smb Win 2003 Storage Server

Files are accessed on a Windows 2003 Storage Server via smb.
I just received a "re-furbished" 27" iMac with Mac OS 10.8.2 installed. Any and all folders on the network containing Postscript font files show those files as grayed out. It appears to be limited to just Postscript fonts, NOT Truetype (.tt) or OpenType (.otf) fonts. It appears something is not recognizing the resource fork portion of the files (is it because they have no file extension?).
All other Macs on the network running older versions of the OS do NOT have a problem accessing Postscript Font files.
I'm just an end user looking for information I can pass along to our Network IT folks who apparently have limited Mac knowledge.
Any and all advice and/or technical resources would be greatly appreciated.

I do greatly appreciate the info in the "Font Management in OS X" article, but this does not begin to address the problem I tried to describe above.
The fonts in question reside in job folders on a network, running Windows Storage Server 2003 software and Mac users access those files via smb.
As needed, those fonts are copied from the network location to the application's font folder or to a local hard drive for loading via Suitcase Fusion. The activation of these fonts is NOT the problem. The font files, (specifically Postscript Font files), are marked as corrupted BEFORE they can be copied and activated.
This issue came about ONLY after I connected my new 27" iMac running OS 10.8.2 to the server. All other Mac users running older versions of the Mac OS did not have any issues, until the new Mac was thrown in the mix. Something in the Mac OS 10.8.2 or on the server is not recognizing the resource fork portion of the Postscript font files.
Once the folders containing Postscript fonts have been accessed by the Mac running OS 10.8.2, those fonts are then "corrupted," meaning any other users can no longer load those fonts as needed, because they are grayed out.
To underscore the significance of this issue, please understand that this is a prepress production workstation. The iMac was added because we could not install Adobe's CS6 Suite on existing hardware. Because of these issues, I can only use the new Mac to open InDesign CS5.5 and/or CS6 source files provided by customers, I then export an .idml file and work the job on my older "stable" Mac running Adobe's CS5 Suite.
So I hope you can come to understand that access to the exact versions of fonts used to create print production files is critical. Any substitution of fonts results in countless additional hours spent verifying that text wraps match previously printed samples exactly.
Few things are more frustrating than not having confidence in the integrity of files stored on one's own network. This is compounded by the fact that the "IT" function was outsourced to our company's headquarter's (offsite) years ago where the "IT" people seem to have minimal high-end knowledge of Macs.
Any other OS 10.8.2 users out there having this particular problem? Any other ideas?

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