Mail Header issue

Recently, I've had an issue with the headers on the messages in mail. The text is all spread out and the addresses aren't selectable any more. I didn't mess with any of the preferences, and haven't done any major system changes. I tried the old "repairing permissions and clearing caches, but that didn't do anything either.
Any suggestions? It's not a BIG deal yet, but it is nice to be able to add things to Addressbook and stuff when I get emails from new people.

I didn't need to disable any fonts. That's what the
article was about.
Which article? The second article Ferd II provided certainly is not about disabling fonts. Rather, it's about which fonts you shouldn't mess with and how to properly handle the rest.
I don't have any of the programs that the article listed
Which programs don't you have? You certainly have Font Book.
and I was using the "lucida grande" font for my mail.
This is irrelevant.
In the end, I did end up solving my problem by
running onyx again. Whatever it did different the
second time, fixed things.
Probably what it did was to clean up the Fonts cache, which causes all fonts previously disabled with Font Book to become enabled again:
Undoing Font Book
Side effects of System cache cleaning
Now, if you prefer to think the problem was something else and to believe OnyX did some kind of magic to your computer, that's fine by me, but I'm concerned that other users who come across this thread could be mislead by your statements.

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