InDesign font issue - displaying spaces as "D" using Fontin Sans

I've been having a strange font problem in InDesign CS3 for a couple days. When opening docs using ex libris' font "Fontin Sans" (in various weights) ID is messing with the formatting and instead of spaces is displaying a capital "D". I figured it was a corrupt font, but I deleted and reinstalled the font and it works fine in other programs. The issue isn't 100%, either. Yesterday I switched to another font and then switched back to Fontin Sans, and it worked fine, for a time. I've been using this font for a while in a variety of projects without issue.
Besides that it works in other programs, another reason I suspect this isn't a specific issue with this font is that when I opened a couple web pages yesterday (NY Times and my company's own home page) much of the plain text was completely garbled (symbols and such, no recognizable words), and that certainly wasn't a Fontin Sans issue. The two things seem unrelated, but as they both started happening yesterday I wonder if they're connected. The web text-display issue seems to have gone away today, however, while the Fontin/ID issue remains.
I don't even know where to start on this one. I'm using CS3, Mac Pro Intel, OS 10.4. No updates in the past couple days on font managers or CS3.

Delete your font cache. Download a free font cache cleaner utility. I have font finagler which may or may not be free. Can't recall.

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