Font Problems in Leopard being stored on backup Server

All files that I use are put onto a backup snap server, I do not know all of the details for the servers, but since I upgraded to Leopard it has lost many file "kinds" so now fonts just about ever single font file is being seen as Unix Executable Files instead of the fonts that they are. Many of the fonts that I had a copy of on my computer are ok, but not all of them, so I need to know a way to turn these Unix Executable files back into files that can be seen as fonts. I have tried adding file extensions but it hasn't worked. With other files I have been able to add the file extension and the computer will open them in the correct program, but the fonts do not seem to be working the same way. I cannot think of anything else to do. Please help.

"Optimizing font performance" text pops up on the Word/Powerpoint startup window ... (I have 600+ fonts, but it still shouldn't do this)
It shouldn't take quite that long, but that still is a lot of fonts to have open at once.
It seems to have worked for Word, but trying to open a blank document in Pages causes it to crash. Keynote opens a blank or template-based document, but as soon as I try to click to edit text, it crashes.
Office and Pages/Keynote are completely unrelated to each other, vendor wise. Something is going on at the OS level to affect multiple apps from both Apple and Microsoft.
It may not be as simple as this, but try removing all font cache data from your Mac. Download the Snow Leopard version of OnyX. Click the Cleaning heading and then the Fonts tab. Check all items (except Gimp if you're not using that), then click Execute. When it's done clearing the cache files from the system, it will tell you to restart. Do not skip that step!
After the Mac restarts, check to make sure OnyX has removed the Office cache files. Close all Office applications. Remove the following files. The tilde (~) indicates your home account.
~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.browserfont.cache
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11)
For Office 2008, the location of the second item is:
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Office Font Cache (12)

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Message was edited by: Barbara Brundage

Hello Barbara
Glad to read from you.
Have you re-installed the fonts which you used in AppleWorks which are not available in Leopard?
The set of fonts delivered with Leopard is different to the one delivered with Tiger.
We may think that some fonts are not correctly identified by the coelacanthus named AppleWorks.
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OS X 10.6.x - Snow Leopard
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OS X 10.8.x - Mountain Lion
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