Making ttf fonts available

G'day,
In my quest for nice fonts I have installed ttf-ms-fonts, and that has fixed up my fonts in firefox and thunderbird nicely.
My problem is that these fonts aren't available to apps such as nedit.
I have tried adding the font paths to my XF86Config like so:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf-ms-fonts"
But this doesn't seem to work. My XF86 log contains this:
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttf-ms-fonts
I've tried a couple of things like reinstalling the ttf package, trying to regenerate the font cache, etc but when it comes down to it I know nothing about fonts really so there is probably an easy solution.
Any ideas?

Thanks for your replies, guys.
Well yes, the tailing slash for my fontpaths was something I missed!
But even after fixing that up, running # fc-cache -fv, and even deleting the fonts.cache file then regenerating the cache, no luck.
Looking at all the relevant config files inside the font directories such as fonts.cache and fonts.dir, I can't see anything suspicious. They look much the same as those in other directories.
This might give somebody a hint though:
[root@mctav mctavish]# xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
xset: bad font path element (#54), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
Ownership and permissions for TTF and ttf-ms-fonts directories don't look any different to others that work, and the fonts.dir directories are definitely there. I don't know enough about the font server to know if there is a problem there.
I've googled for answers, but no luck.
Ah, the sweet mysteries!

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