Hebrew Fonts Mac Indesign CS6

Hey there!
I'm having problems with my Hebrew fonts and need help. I have Indesign CS6 for Mac and have downloaded the Hebrew Supported version. I have set up my document so that paragraph and character reflect the need for Hebrew. I can use the standard Hebrew system fonts, however I have loads of great Hebrew fonts which are recognised by Font Book but not in Indesign. The weird thing is that on CS4 these fonts were recognised (however at that time I didn't have Hebrew support so ended up typing, letter for letter, backwards to get the text I needed.
Can you give me some indication as to why I am unable to use these fonts? When I try to use them I get this warning:

The warning sounds like it indicates that the font you want to use might not be suitable for Unicode Hebrew.  Are they perhaps in some legacy encoding?
In any case, you should also search/ask in the forums devoted entirely to the problems of Adobe products, if you have not done so already:
http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa

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