Inserting password missing font?

When i require to insert me password to download a program or any updates it seems the font is missing and is replaced with this [A] sign. Does anyone know why it's doing this. I have recently updated my software to mac OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard and it never done this with my previous version.
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Thanks
Daniel

That's part of the font LastResort, in the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. Causes are normally either a corrupt font, or just the font cache files. To clear the cache files:
Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and all user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.

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