Mail's Font Handling

Messages (in and out) frequently turn "from" or "to" information lines into gibberish, e.g., "(my name and email address) wrote:" appears as, "Yknnkco"Jcttcj" >d4jcttcjBekvoqo0pgv @"
Similarly, when I copy and paste from MSWord to outgoing Mail messages, some lines in Times font randomy turn into Helvetica (larger size and bold). This most often (but not always) occurs with previously formatted lines.
My preferences are set to compose in Rich Text and use Helvetica as default font. This has been a continuing problem in OSX, not restricted to Tiger.
G4   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Take a look at the following article:
Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther
In particular, in addition to ensuring that the right fonts are installed in the right places (and enabled in Font Book), Font Book can be used to validate fonts and resolve duplicates. Also, get rid of Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic if you have any of those fonts installed.

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