Font weirdness! Is my iMac possessed?

I added some fonts from work, and coincidentally added another user account.
Now when I use Firefox in either account, all the fonts are bizarre; one is a ding of some sort, another is some kind of foreign font.
And when I use Safari in the new account, I can't get the "normal" fonts. They're not as bizarre as Firefox (they're readable), but they're not normal.
I've tried finding the fonts and turning them off in Font Book, I've tried changing the fonts in the browser prefs, but no luck.
I also used Pacifist, in order to install the original fonts from my install disc without a complete archive and install; it did it, but gave me some error messages:
_An error occurred while writing the resource fork for the file ./System/Library/Fonts/HelveLTMM._
_An error occurred while writing the resource fork for the file ./System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica LT MM._
_An error occurred while writing the resource fork for the file ./System/Library/Fonts/Times LT MM._
_An error occurred while writing the resource fork for the file ./System/Library/Fonts/TimesLTMM._
I'd appreciate it if someone with more brains than me could help me figure out how to fix these fontgoblins...

The fonts giving you an error message are hidden in Panther and Tiger. These Multiple Master fonts are used by Preview in particular to mimic the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Not being able to write the resource fork data could be an indication that the hard drive's file directory is damaged. If you have it, boot to your Disk Warrior CD and repair the hard drive.
Along with removing the two bad boy fonts Klaus1 indicated, download and run Font Finagler to clear the system's font cache files.

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