Fonts not showing in Preview

I'm experiencing a most bizarre problem. All of a sudden last week Preview
decided to suddenly stop showing pdf files properly - many characters are
often missing and in some cases whole fonts (e.g. the italic version of a font) are missing. I can view the pdf in Acrobat (6) without any problem. I first noticed this with files I was creating using TeXShop, but it also happens when viewing pdf files using Safari. Rebooting the machine seems to work for a while, and then the whole thing starts over again. I can view the pdfs using Preview on other machines with 10.4.7 installed no problem. I've moved the plist and that had no effect. Running Console at the same time gives errors along the lines of the following (this was a particularly bad case where nothing appeared in Preview - the document was produced using TeXShop and used only Computer Modern fonts)
Aug 24 11:01:33 ruppia /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview: can't find glyph 0.
Aug 24 11:01:33 ruppia /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview: can't find glyph 0.
Any advice, suggestions, thoughts on how to fix this would be most appreciated as it is getting annoying to reboot my machine once or twice a day (it reminds me of using a W**** machine).
Thanks,
Adrian
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Hi Mark,
Well, something is corrupt. The problem remains even after signing on
as another user. Now, another machine (also a quad core G5) is having
the same problem. This second mac has not shared files with the first one. Sometimes the glyphs from the fonts are just not
there, and at other times they are replaced with symbols.
One can immediately view the pdf properly and without error by opening it
with Acrobat.
So this problem is intermittent (it goes away for a while after rebooting),
occurs whenever pdfs are viewed with Preview (e.g. from within Safari
or straight loadad into Preview). This is getting very very annoying.
I'm begining to think that only a total re-install will solve the problem,
but since it is now happening on a second machine, I'm worried that
something more insidious is happening.

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