Group Fonts by Family

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have WAYYY too many fonts. Before 10.6, I used Fontcard (http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/fontcard/) to tame my fonts into nice neat family groupings. But 10.6 broke Fontcard and it looks like the developers are not going to upgrade it.
My dilemma is I have searched hi and lo on the internet to find another app that does this function (group fonts by family) and I cannot find one. Even the commercial offerings don't do it. I have Font Agent and it's great at organizing fonts on your hard drive and auto activation, but it does not group them in font menus outside of itself like FontCard did. I'm looking for a system wide menu where the fonts are grouped by family.
Any one found an app that does this for 10.6?

In the interface for Suitcase Fusion 2, there are multiple headings you can sort the font lists by. Family is one of them. You can download and try it out for 30 days. That will give you a chance to see if it sorts fonts to your liking before purchasing.
I know that's not the same as sorting fonts by family in the font menus of individual applications, but I don't recall seeing anything like that for OS X yet.

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