Help!  My Menus have all turned into "A" boxes

Hope someone can help. I did some software updates yesterday to latest Itunes and Quicktime versions. For some reason the Latest OS X 10.1.8 would not load. So I still have 10.1.7 right now.
Since these updates, my menus (across top of screen) and drop down boxes have lost their text and have been replaced by capital 'A' s in a box.
So even if I wanted to go into my applications I now cannot read menu anymore and right now I am going by memory on where things are.
Anyone had this happen before?

This issue has happened before, and appears to be an issue with Unicode character mapping. Currently, the only available solution is to perform an Archive and Install of Mac OS X followed by running all relevant updaters.
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