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I have never had a problem with OS X updates before- but this one is plain weird. I installed the 10.4.5 update using Software Update and repaired permissions before and after. I have no applications installed that would mess with system fonts because it's a fresh install.
Anyway, after rebooting and logging in, I opened Mail. The fonts used are all in bold. Some emails are unreadable. I opened Safari, and most web pages are fine, but many aren't viewable- fonts are crashing into each other and Google's are all small and in bold!
I reapplied the update via the combo updater, and it's still the same. I never have a need to touch the default font book and have never had this problem before. Anyone have any ideas about this before I do a Windows Admin special and reinstall (never thought I would say that about OS X twice in one week!).
BTW- even the fonts used to label icons on the desktop seem screwed- they don't appear to be anti-aliased at all.
sigh
Any help appreciated.

You might want to try downloading Font Finagler and have it delete all your font caches. It's free for 10 uses I think:
http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/
Corrupted caches are the most likely reason for this so deal with that first to get it out of the way.
Font Book caches can be a problem as well, but not if you've never opened it.
But, if Font Finagler doesn't help then you should open Font Book and verify all fonts to find out if you have any corrupt ones and delete them.

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<Preran> For the benefit of moderators here, I used Google to translate your content into English:
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