Fonts not installing in Leopard 10.5

I've just installed Leopard, no problems except that I can't get my 3rd-party fonts into Font Book. In fact Font Book has been playing up a lot. The first time I restarted after the install I noticed that one of the system fonts (possibly Helvetica) used by iCal and a few of the Widgets wasn't rendering correctly. I have had to delete the FontBook.db file and it's preferences .plist file which improved things a little.
However, when I try and drag font folders into Font Book it tends to just crash Font Book so I've only been able to install a fraction of my fonts. Note, these are all fonts that worked without any problems on Tiger 10.4.
Any help would be much appreciated.

One problem that Font Book is having in Leopard is dealing with the actual fonts found out in the wild. Not only are there thousands of different typefaces in circulation (many of them badly made), but it sometimes happens that one person's copy of a font has a specific corruption not shared by other copies. This seems to be at the root of the installation problems and crashes.
If Font Book is crashing when you try to install a font, even if you can get a solution to your prbolem here, file a bug and, if possible, include the font or a pointer to it. It speeds up bug fixing if the circumstances triggering the bug can be reproduced as exactly as possible, and the more people file bugs about a particular problem, the faster it's going to get fixed.

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