Mail shows a capital A in a square border character for each character in all links in most html emails.

If I copy and paste a block of these characters into TextEdit, I can see the correct verbage with links intact. Using OSX 10.6.8, all software updated. What's up with this? Still using mobileme, could it be related to that? This just started two days ago. Old emails are now displaying this way. Actually, an email from the White House goes the other way; the entire body displays as blocks of capital As (inside a square border) and the links display correctly.

A’s with boxes around them is always a sign of trouble with the main system font, Lucida Grande.
Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
Terminal will then ask for you to enter your admin password. As you type, it will not show anything, so be sure to enter it correctly.
This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and all user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.
If after that the problem returns, then Lucida Grande itself is damaged and needs to be replaced.
That's fixed with reinstalling the OS.

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