Font menu crashes Pages in Leopard

Clicking the Font menu in either the toolbar or menu causes Pages to crash in OS 10.5 Leopard. Anyone have suggestions?

Thank you Dennis for responding so quickly,
I was able to find the file com.apple.iWork.Pages.plist with your advise. I moved it to the trash, emptied the trash, and restarted Pages. Unfortunately, Pages still crashes when opening the font menu. I tried the above several times. I even tried restarting the computer, after removing the file, without success. Any other ideas?
Again, thank you for your attention.

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I'm hesitant to disable those fonts on the system level to get the same effect. While they're not on the list of required system fonts, as they represent other scripts the computer is capable of showing, I think there might be unintended consequences.

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Could I do the same in Office 2011?
The best place to search/ask about Office issues is probably the forums run by the people who make it:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macword

Illustrator CS5 crashes when scrolling through font menu.

Hello Adobe Community,
I am in desperate need of help with my Illustrator CS5 program. It has suddenly started to crash when I scroll through the Font menu from the Type menu at the top of the program. I am using a late 2013 Macbook Pro 13" with retina display on OSX 10.9.2. I am using Illustrator CS5 v15.0.0. I have read through scores of forum threads and tried every solution that was suggested and still cannot resolve this problem. I am stumped and my back is up against the wall. My work flow has now slowed to crawl since I have to now search through fonts using FontBook then manually type in the font I need in the font character field. I believe this problem is due to a corrupt font. The trouble started after I installed a new font. I have since deactivated and deleted that font but the problem persists. I am not a "tech head" so I don't know how to generate those long code pages that some can. I can make pretty pictures with Adobe products but I can't service those Adobe products.
Here is a list of things I have tried so far (at least what I remember):
*     I have deactivated and deleted the font I believed to be corrupt.
*     I have validated all my fonts with FontBook and deleted all corrupt files.
*     I have turned off the "enable missing glyph protecting" in the preferences.
*     I have used FontNuke to delete my font caches.
*     I have reset my Pram.
*     I have repaired all my permission with disk utility.
*     I have removed all fonts except for the standard system fonts.
*     I have uninstalled Illustrator and done a clean install (my system was migrated from a backup-however is has worked fine for months).
*     I have deleted my library/preferences/abobefnt.plst.
*     I have change the font preview to small.
*     I deleted all my fonts and restored them from time machine from before I had installed that last font I believed to be buggy.
*     I have prayed to Jebus.
So far none of this has worked. The closest I got was after deleting all the corrupt fonts with FontBook. It worked for a day. Then the next day started crashing again. I am completely lost at this point. I don't know what else to do.
Can anybody please help me figure this out?
BK
Update - I figured out how those crash reports are done so if anyone thinks they can help but needs to see a report please let me know and I will paste it into a reply.
Update 2 - I tried turning off the font preview all together and this seems to have stopped the crashes so far. I think the bug can be isolated to this function. Problem is I need that function.

Hello Adobe Community,
I am in desperate need of help with my Illustrator CS5 program. It has suddenly started to crash when I scroll through the Font menu from the Type menu at the top of the program. I am using a late 2013 Macbook Pro 13" with retina display on OSX 10.9.2. I am using Illustrator CS5 v15.0.0. I have read through scores of forum threads and tried every solution that was suggested and still cannot resolve this problem. I am stumped and my back is up against the wall. My work flow has now slowed to crawl since I have to now search through fonts using FontBook then manually type in the font I need in the font character field. I believe this problem is due to a corrupt font. The trouble started after I installed a new font. I have since deactivated and deleted that font but the problem persists. I am not a "tech head" so I don't know how to generate those long code pages that some can. I can make pretty pictures with Adobe products but I can't service those Adobe products.
Here is a list of things I have tried so far (at least what I remember):
*     I have deactivated and deleted the font I believed to be corrupt.
*     I have validated all my fonts with FontBook and deleted all corrupt files.
*     I have turned off the "enable missing glyph protecting" in the preferences.
*     I have used FontNuke to delete my font caches.
*     I have reset my Pram.
*     I have repaired all my permission with disk utility.
*     I have removed all fonts except for the standard system fonts.
*     I have uninstalled Illustrator and done a clean install (my system was migrated from a backup-however is has worked fine for months).
*     I have deleted my library/preferences/abobefnt.plst.
*     I have change the font preview to small.
*     I deleted all my fonts and restored them from time machine from before I had installed that last font I believed to be buggy.
*     I have prayed to Jebus.
So far none of this has worked. The closest I got was after deleting all the corrupt fonts with FontBook. It worked for a day. Then the next day started crashing again. I am completely lost at this point. I don't know what else to do.
Can anybody please help me figure this out?
BK
Update - I figured out how those crash reports are done so if anyone thinks they can help but needs to see a report please let me know and I will paste it into a reply.
Update 2 - I tried turning off the font preview all together and this seems to have stopped the crashes so far. I think the bug can be isolated to this function. Problem is I need that function.

Illustrator CS5 is crashing every time I open the Font Menu

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Ok, so I am now leaning towards a corrupt font also like Wade Z. suggested. A few things to try if you haven't first though.
1.) Did you repair permissions using Disk Utility in the Applications > Utilities folder? I'd do that and run it a few times until it runs "clean". Meaning that you don't see it repair anything anymore in the list. (I'm assuming you're on a Mac). If you're on a PC this won't help.
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You can not simply drag over Pages, particularly if it was perhaps damaged in a crash.
As it was only Pages '08 it may be time to upgrade to Pages '09 from the App Store. It is not that expensive and will allow you to install it on any Mac sharing the same Apple I.D. and protect you from a repeat of this problem.
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