Font missing (not recognised)

I recently upgraded to CS3, am running XP home. When I open an Id file the Missing Font Dialogue box tells me there are a lot of missing fonts. Trouble is they are all there in the font folder and also visible on In Designs Type/font drop down list.
It seems as though CS3 has not recognized these fonts exist.
I can of course go through and manually substute all the fonts(with the same ones) but this is not ideal as I edit lots of different files.
The files are from a designer working with Mac OSX.
Does anybody have a solution??

The 0 kb file isn't a font (you'll see lots of "placeholder" files when
viewing Mac files on a PC), and converting fonts from Mac format to PC
format is a lot more work and art than any normal person wants to get
into. You'd probably end up with a slightly different font and have to
go through the same font substitution process you're trying to avoid.
What I meant by "exact same fonts" is that you and your designer go out
and buy the exact same Opentype font. Opentype fonts are cross-platform.
The same font file will work on both Mac or PC.
It is possible to get Truetype and Type 1 fonts in both Mac and PC
versions that are exactly the same (except for the platform) and will
not trigger substitution. But it's also possible to go out and buy the
the Mac and PC versions of the same font and still get substitution
problems.
You'll find also that while PCs can't use Mac Type 1 or Truetype fonts,
Macs *can* use PC Truetype fonts, and Mac Indesign (and other Mac Adobe
programs) can use PC Type 1 fonts if they're placed in Adobe's font folder.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com

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