Helvetica Neue - 45 Light - Major Issue

Since upgrading from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard 10.6.1, one of our corporate fonts Helvetica 45 Light does not work any more! Its really frustrating as it worked ok in 10.5.8.
I work an an in-house graphic designer and have to create deadline-critical print artwork on a daily basis here. The only workaround we can find is having to substitute our corporate font for the Apple System version of Helvetica Neue. As a result, our copy doesn't look the same as the cut of the font is slightly different. We are also experiencing text re-flows too which are annoying and time consuming to correct on a daily basis. To add to this, certain characters like "–" do not export correctly when generating high-resolution print-ready PDF files. We are having to create all type in our artwork to outlines, which adds length to each job! A significant change in our workflow which functioned fine in 10.5.8.
Apple, PLEASE can you fix this font issue as im sure we are not the only people in the world who use one of the most popular fonts ever created in the history of type. I am enjoying Snow Leopard and many of its enhanced features. Just a shame its a massive step backward in terms of font compatibility.
Already trawled the Apple forums on this so any tips would be welcomed, along with a fix from Apple too.

Finally, a workaround. If you have the Adobe Creative Suite installed, drop your fonts in here:
HD/Applications/Adobe InDesign CS4/ Fonts
Works fine for me, and our corporate fonts now work inside Illustrator CS4 too. I found it on this really helpful thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2154431&tstart=0
Apple still need to sort this out though.

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