Is someone messing with me, or are things just screwed up?

yesterday fonts were not connecting in apps. today, pdf presets went away, disk utility not showing the same mounted drives as the finder, ect. ect. Is someone maliciously messing with my computer or are things just breaking all of the time?
no one here can fiddle with macs, and AI is not present.

Well, of course it did. Not only did you revert to an older system that doesn't have problems with whatever older software you're using, but you erased the hard drive and reinstalled the system, wiping out any possible issues caused by system corruption. In the absence of any troubleshooting, that doesn't tell you anything about Mountain Lion.
At some point in the future, you will have to upgrade. When you do, you will have more success if you do the following:
1) Check all your software for compatibility with the new system.
2) Repair the hard drive with Disk Utility.
3) Make a full backup of your whole system using Time Machine.
4) Ideally, make a second full backup of your whole system using something else, like Carbon Copy Cloner. (I consider two backups to be the minimum.)
5) Wait until you have time to deal with any possible problems that crop up.
6) Install the upgrade.
Some people recommend erasing your hard drive and installing the new system "cleanly." That certainly helps ensure that you don't have any problems with the new system, but is often unnecessary. I prefer to save clean installs for when they are actually necessary, but that is only an opinion. You can certainly choose to do a clean install if you prefer.

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