InDesign CS6 OSX linked fonts not recognized

I am using InDesign CS6 on Mountain Lion and I received a document from a PC InDesign user with a linked AI image and document fonts folder included. When I launch the idd file the fonts are "missing".
OSX does not seem to recognize the font files in the document fonts folder as proper font files. In Finder they appear as Unix executable files..
I've tried disk repair/permissions repair, but neither seems to fix the problem.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Sounds like thy may be Windows Type 1 postscript fonts, in which case you would need to install them (both halves) into ID's private fonts folder.

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I think the problem is a bit deeper than that. OS X isn't recognizing Postscript fonts period. ... I have over 13,000 fonts and not one postscript font works (except the system postscript fonts).
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