Help with font smoothing / rendering

Hi,
I recently upgraded from Leopard (10.5.8) to Snow Leopard (10.6), updated it to 10.6.4 yesterday. Font smoothing or rendering turned bad ever since the SL upgrade. I did these two things so far:
1. Resolved all the duplicate fonts in Font Book (there were many).
2. defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
Rebooted the machine. I still feel the fonts are looking ugly. Here are the screenshots:
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/2998/screenshot20100617at115.png
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/2294/screenshot20100617at120.png
Please help. I can't afford to do clean installation of SL now at this point

Hi,
I have exactly the same problem. Validated all my fonts cleaned out font cache but unfortunately nothing helped.
What else can it be?
Could you tell me what exactly you did?

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