Fonts not showing up in InDesign CS4?

Hi,
Newbie here, so any wisdom from the voices of experience is greatly appreciated.
I just upgraded from CS2 to CS4, and several fonts that worked fine in CS2 do not even show up in CS4 (!).  I'm working with Mac OSX and I'd really like to know if anyone has any constructive suggestions.  I've done some poking around online and it seems I'm not the only one who's encountered this little issue, but it also seems that others have been unsuccessful in resolving it.  Can anyone provide some insight?
Thank you!

Thanks for responding.I'm working with Mac version 10.5.8. 
The fonts I'm trying to work with are foreign language fonts that don't appear anywhere on the font list (trust me-I've looked!).
Well, if you've really looked through the whole list, you already know that foreign-language fonts usually show up at the end of the list, in categories that are ostensibly by language. Some of them do not show up in their pre-ordained language category; massive Unicode roll-ups of many scripts often show up with the Latin-script fonts or the Thai fonts (???).
I'm the complex-script DTP wonk in a translation firm that specializes in refugee languages; chances are that I've already encountered the fonts you're trying to install, at some point in the last decade. If I haven't, I know someone who has done so. You really should post the names of the fonts, so I can tell you if I know anything about them, tricks to install them, and so on.
As far as how the fonts were installed-I'm not sure how they got here initially (fonts are a great mystery to me), but they show up in my Fontbook in the "Computer" collection but not the "User" collection.  Could that have something to do with my problem?
Uh, maybe. I doubt it, though. You could find out by
1) Finding out where the actual font files are.
2) Copying them to your desktop, or someplace where Mac OS can't get to 'em.
3) Uninstall them from Fontbook. (I don't have a Mac with that version of Mac OS installed; I'll look when I'm at home to see if I can give you step-by-step instructions, or you can Google for instructions.)
4) Put the font files in your /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS4/Fonts folder.
For fonts that Mac OS doesn't like, this is the most reliable way to get them working. But really, post the names of the fonts and I'll probably be able to tell you all about using them for typesetting in InDesign.

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