How to install Fonts on G4 running 10.3.9 and Classic 9.2.2

Question

Just purchased a used G4 and it is a super machine. I am having a problem, however, installing my fonts (from a CD) into Font Book. I am getting wicked nostalgic for my G3 where I just dragged my fonts to my System folder and bingo! They installed! On the G4, in Font Book, I just can't get them to come up in the column, and when I tried installing each individually, they never show up, even after restart. I have tons and tons of fonts I use all the time.
Why won't they go where they should? Because of this, all my type is chunky in Quark. Grrr.

Answer 1

In addition to Kappy's advice.
Font Book won't activate any fonts for Classic unless you tell it to use "classic Mac OS" as the activation method (before 10.3.5). It then puts installed fonts in the OS 9 (Classic) /System Folder/Fonts/ folder. In that location, both OS 9 and OS X can use the fonts.
For 10.3.5 and later, which is where you are, Font Book will only store installed fonts in either the /Library/Fonts/ folder, or the Fonts folder of your user account; whichever one you chose in its preferences. In either location, OS 9 will not see the fonts. If you need an OS 9 application to see the fonts you want open, then you either need to place them manually into the /System Folder/Fonts/ folder, or use a font manager that will activate fonts simultaneously for OS 9 and X. Suitcase X or X1 can do that, as can FontAgent Pro.
...when I tried installing each individually, they never show up, even after restart.
If what you're talking about is Type 1 PostScript fonts, you may not have copied everything over. Type 1 PostScript fonts are a set. One file is a suitcase containing all of the low res bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts. As an example, here's Adobe Garamond.
Adobe Garamond
AGarBol
AGarBolIta
AGarIta
AGarReg
AGarSem
AGarSemIta
The first file which I highlighted in green is the font suitcase of bitmap screen fonts. The rest are the outline printer fonts.
1) The files for a Type 1 PostScript font must have both the screen and printer fonts for a given set in order to work. They also must be in the same folder.
2) The suitcase of bitmap fonts will work alone, but output will be terrible since the system will print the fonts using the 72 dpi screen fonts in the suitcase if the outline portions are missing.
3) Having only the outline fonts will not work. You will get exactly what you are having problems with. You can see the fonts, but they will not load. That's not a problem with Font Book, Suitcase or other font manager. None of them, nor the system itself will load outline fonts from a Type 1 PostScript font without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present.