Help - Font issues are ruining my life.

I need help in getting my fonts under control. There are hundreds of them buried in my system, and they slow program launches down to a crawl. Every time I want to pick a new font to use, I'm confronted with menus that stretch to eternity. I've tried to turn them off in Font Book but it's taking hours trying to run down their location and then deciding which ones to disable. All I want to do is have a simple collection of maybe 12–15 fonts to use in my everyday work. If I could throw all of these usless fonts away I would do it in a second, but I'm afraid I'll dump something of importance. I know, I have a blind spot when it comes to understanding fonts in OS X. Are there any easy ways to regain my sanity?

consult this page for help with fonts
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html

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Now you say that the account went to collections and you have paid it. So at this point I am not sure what you can negotiate anymore. I've read that if you have something in collections and tell the collecting company that you will pay them if they remove the negative mark from your credit, they will negotiate it with you.
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