Inconsistent Flash 10 Viewing in Snow Leopard...

Hi all,
This may end up being old hat for some, but I thought I would share a quick finding that was causing some definite viewing inconsistencies in the flash player on various sites; in particular the Adobe Store site! First for some facts:
I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.2) and Safari 4.0.4 with the 10.0.32.18 player
I recently purchased a new iMac and decided to create a new account for setup and app installations, but migrated other user accounts from a previous Tiger installation.
I have been able to view flawlessly various sites that included flash content on the setup account, but have had flaky results on the same sites from the migrated accounts.
The migrated accounts were using the same system plug-ins under Safari as the setup account.
The permissions were repaired and verified.
Admin and non-admin accounts (that were not the setup account) were experiencing the same flash viewing problems.
KEY FACT: I noticed that the common characteristic of the problem sites was that flash was having problems displaying various kinds of text in the browser and was not having issues playing video content.
After some deep comparisons of the setup account vs. the other problem accounts, I noticed that the setup account was using 100% /Library/Fonts and had nothing located in the /{usr home}/Library/Fonts whereas the problem accounts had "migrated" some /{usr home}/Library/Fonts over with them and they were pretty old at that. I moved them out of the local library location temporarily and forced the usage of the newer /Library/Fonts and the sites were happy; especially the Adobe Store.
I know that there are lot of variables that can cause display issues, but I just wanted to get this one out there because I know many are experiencing sporadic problems and are expecting it to be the player itself, but in this case it wasn't. With these continued OS and product releases, we are collecting more and more cruft with each upgrade and this one finally caught up with me! Hope it helps.
Marc

I didn't understand half of what you wrote, but apparently that doesn't matter. I've been having extremely annoying issues with flash based video players for a few months, and no amount of updating has helped. I took your advice and deleted the migrated fonts from my home folder and lo-and behold, the problem is gone! I have no idea why, but I'm so thankful! THANK YOU!
More details: YouTube's video player would play videos, but the buttons of the player would disappear. Any time text appeared over the video, like with comments and the like, the boxes would be empty. Some fringe players wouldn't work at all. Now? Problem, solved.

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