Help! boxes with A's in them are everywhere

Well,
I decided to update my firmware and 10.4.7 on my 3 month old imac G5. All of the font everywhere has turned into a box with an "A" in it...menus, folder names, folder contents, everything.
I have started in safe mode and have considered the archive restart, but would like to avoid that if possible. I am getting an application launch failure "null", but the few answers I have seen vary, but a few point to the archive restart. Any other ideas?
Thanks.

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