Lots of fonts messed up. /etc/fonts/ dissapeared :s

I started up arch today and went to open something in mousepad, i noticed that monospace was messed up so i ran "fc-cache -fv" as root and normal user again. Then rebooted now there are more fonts that have messed up like sans etc.
Anyone know how to fix this? Here's the output of fc-cache.
[ash@breakage ~]$ fc-cache -fv
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 10 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/TTF: caching, new cache contents: 62 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 16 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/local: caching, new cache contents: 26 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 55 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
I also noticed on starting up arch it gives an error something like "unable to load default font"
Edit: Also just noticed that the /etc/fonts/ folder has dissapeared.
Last edited by Breakage (2008-02-17 18:36:36)

Thanks fwojciec, just worked that out seconds before thanks for the reply though man.
It worked too, strange that the whole folder just disappeared.
Last edited by Breakage (2008-02-17 18:37:12)

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