Fonts do not display correctly - or only erratically!

I am using Lucinda Grande regular 15 on a black background in my website:
http://www.visionstatement.org.au/home.html
In iweb it looks great - on safari the font is thickened up by a few points - in fact it looks like a bold version of the regular font.
Interesting it doesn't happen every time - in one of my web pages it looks perfectly how it should
http://www.visionstatement.org.au/pcprep.html
If you compare these two fonts you'll see the difference - but trust me - same font every time.
I even tried copying the font from the correctly displayed page and pasting it into the text of the incorrectly displaying page - the problem did not resolve.
This is therefore not a browser issue - so I am wondering if it is to do with the other elements on the page - or maybe the way I created the text in the first place.
I appreciate anybody's help with this - and thanks - you guys do an awesome job at this support page!
Happy Mal

No - support has run out on both iwork and my computer.
It is obviously a problem for many people.
It would be good to solve it - any ideas on how we can get their attention?

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