Fonts moved to "Fonts Disabled" -- but still enabled

Question

My upgrade to Snow Leopard has been generally painless, but there have been some quirks. For example, I was trying to resolve some font conflicts manually when I noticed that Snow Leopard had moved 61 relatively old but still useful TrueType fonts from "~/Library/Fonts" to "/Library/Fonts Disabled".
What a bummer, I thought -- except that to my surprise, the fonts were still available in every program I tried. I speculated that maybe I had long ago added duplicates to /Library/Fonts, but no, the ones in my "Fonts Disabled" folder were all I had. Snow Leopard's Font Book app found a few more dupes, but the program was able to resolve them with no fuss. All the supposedly disabled fonts show up normally in Font Book.
UPDATE: A helpful colleague pointed out to me that many of the fonts looked to him like fonts added by various versions of Microsoft Office. In fact the most recent version of Office added them to the root-level /Library/Fonts, but *in a subfolder called Microsoft*, so I hadn't seen them before. Pretty sneaky ... but it explains the issue. An older version of Office had added them to my user-level Fonts folder, while Office 2008 added them again, this time to the machine-level Fonts folder. Props to Snow Leopard for uncovering the conflict and disabling the user-specific versions!

Answer 1

I have the same problem, but it seemed to go away when I removed parental controls all together for the account.
Try rebooting after turning off parental controls. If that does not work, I'd also try clearing the safari cookies.
I only wanted time limits, so I had "Allow Unrestricted Access To Websites" selected, which was working until I update my son's machine to 10.8.2. now it pops up the can't access dialog every keystroke in the safari seach bar. There could not have been much testing of parental control for this release.