KDE and fonts problem

Hi. KDE 3.5.2 doesn't respect my fonts configuration in /etc/fonts/local.conf. I don't want to have small fonts antialiased so I set it in that file. In gnome it worked, but in kde not. It doesn't work if i set it in ~/.fonts.conf and it doesn't work, when I set it in control center. Any ideas how to solve it?

I tried the DPI thing, but it did not help. I did not tried the font replacement thing, because going through all the fonts and changing them manually is quite a task. There should be some other way.
I tried to remove all my ubuntu font packages from AUR and installing stock, then back again to ubuntu in hope of restoring the settings, but it did not helped.
Thanks for your suggestions anyway. It was working before, so I just want it to get back to the state it was before. Unfortunately my knowledge in fonts is scarce.

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