Help with Fonts that have trashed my machine

Hi please any help or advice needed.
I have a 2009 Macbook pro 17" running snow leopard v10.6
I recently made the mistake of installing a 1000 fonts pack.
Installed on my machine I have CS4 Master Suite ...
The 1st issue I noticed immediately was firefox fonts were illegible, I went through font book and fixed all the fonts with the yellow exclamation on...
But now I have a bigger issue I need dreamweaver for webwork that I do and all the program fonts are un readable ...
I have tried re installing CS4 to no avail... I even installed the CS5 demo but no joy ..
I set up a 2nd user on the mac and everything works fine, so I tried just creating a copy font directory fro the new account and installing them in my main account ... this just caused more conflicts
I cant use my 2nd User account as I have cutstudio plugin for a roland cutter and for some very odd reason when I sent to cut off my 2nd user account it only cuts out what the last job was on on my main account
Is there any way I can restore my fonts on my main account without having to re install snow leopard ...
If I do re install snow leopard does it wipe everything ????
Many thanks in advance

As macjack noted, you can reinstall just the fonts from your OS X installation disk without reinstalling the entire OS. But, it sounds like your bigger issue is that at least one (probably more) of the fonts you installed are bad. Applications displaying the wrong fonts is usually caused by one of two things, sometimes both:
1) The fonts have incorrect internal names and are conflicting with the font that is supposed to be displaying.
2) The fonts are damaged. If they are, that in turn damages Font Book's database. Once that happens, you will see incorrect fonts displayed, not being able to activate or deactivate fonts from within Font Book, etc.
So just reinstalling OS X's supplied fonts won't fix the issue by itself. You need to do multiple steps:
1) Move all of the third party fonts you installed somewhere other than in a Fonts folder. You can just delete them too since you have them on disk.
2) Reset Font Book. Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode. Keep holding it until OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally.
This will reset Font Book's database and clear the cache files in your user account. Any font sets you have created will be gone. Also, all fonts will now be active, regardless of their state beforehand.
3) Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and all user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.
Everything should be working correctly at this point. The only reason it wouldn't is if the OS X supplied fonts themselves were damaged.

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    01/12/12                       01/01/13                 
    10/10/2012                     01/11/12    But when I try to remove the duplicate period (of the first month) out by restrict rownum, it do not return any rows for the second select at all. The result I get is:
    START_DATE                     NEXT_MONTH               
    10/10/2012                     01/11/12    Can anyone advise what wrong with the select statement ?
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    Hi,
    Here's one way:
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         FROM     dual
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               , ADD_MONTHS ( TRUNC (start_date, 'MONTH')
                            , LEVEL - 1
              )               AS month_start
    ,     LEAST     ( end_date
              , ADD_MONTHS ( TRUNC (start_date, 'MONTH')
                          , LEVEL
                        ) - 1
              )               AS month_end
    FROM    params
    CONNECT BY     LEVEL     <= 1 + MONTHS_BETWEEN ( end_date
                                      , TRUNC (start_date, 'MONTH')
    ;:p50_end_month doesn't have to be the last day of the month; any day will work.
    If you want to generate a Counter Table containing the integers 1 througn x in SQL, you could say
    SELECT  ROWNUM  AS n
    FROM    all_objects
    WHERE   ROWNUM  <= x
    ;but, starting in Oracle 9.1, it's much faster to say
    SELECT  LEVEL   AS n
    FROM    dual    -- or any table containing exactly 1 row
    CONNECT BY  LEVEL <= x
    ;Also, x can be greater than the number of rows in all_objects.

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