Fonts won't activate in Mac OS X 10.4.6

Ever since I performed a Mac OS X combo update (10.4.6) my fonts won't activate in Suitcase 10. Here is the statement that shows up when I try to activate a font: "There are fonts in the suitcase Armada that conflict with fonts in the System Fonts Folder. You must remove the fonts from the System Fonts folder and restart before you can activate these fonts with Suitcase."
I did not have this problem before I updated from 10.4.4 to 10.4.6. The System fonts folder does not have a conflict or any fonts that don't belong.
I went to the Extensis help site and deleted the font cache files as suggested. Still not working. Any ideas?
PowerMac G4 933Mhz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Is your Armada font a single PostScript font, or is it a TrueType suitcase? If it's the latter, there may be multiple fonts in the suitcase. The 10.4.x combo updates put a modified version of Courier into the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. If your Armada font contains a copy of Courier, that would be the conflict.
Do you have any way of examining the contents of the suitcase? If you have it (you can also download a trial copy), open the font with Font Doctor. You would launch Font Doctor and then press Command+D. Click on the button (either one) that says "Open Font Suitcase File". Choose the Armada font. If there are multiple fonts in the suitcase, you will be able to see what they are.

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