Invalid font in menubar, dock, desktop icons

All of sudden, all my menubar, dock and desktop icons text becomes [A][A][A][A]. Anyone experienced this? Any solution instead of reinstall everything?
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Scroll to 'Try Disk Utility'
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
When you've done that, you should consider updating to 10.4.11
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411comboupdateintel.html

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