"Missing Font" Nightmare

I haven't played with my fonts in ages. Suddenly, iWeb claims "Papyrus - Regular" is missing. It's not, in fact it is duplicated. To remove this warning, I placed it in every Font folder on my system - No Luck! I deleted all duplicates and then I moved it into each of the Font folders, one folder at a time - No Luck! I had the FontBook check out every font, and all are good. I have restarted my system several times - No Luck!
THEN, out of total frustration, I went to my site in iWeb and restored all of the fonts back to Papyrus, and it STILL states Papyrus is missing.
The ONLY way I can figure to eliminate this warning is to delete my entire project and start all over. It will take me DAYS to redo all of my work.
Any ideas? I am so incredibly tired of iWeb's CONSTANTLY messing up fonts!! No other application has EVER done this in my 15 years on Macs.

Latest Update - Summary of Actions Taken Thus Far
• Font Book clearly shows the Papyrus font available.
• Deleted all duplicate Papyrus font files - No Change
• Moved Papyrus font file to each of the various font folders - No Change
• Re-added Papyrus font files to every font folder - No Change
• Deleted all Papyrus font files and installed Papyrus font file from James Tseng - No Change
• Validated all fonts in Font Book - All good fonts, including Papyrus.
• Repaired Permissions via Disk Utility - No Change
• Reinstalled iWeb 1.1.2 - No Change
• Deleted Papyrus font file and installed Papyrus font files from "dreamery" - No Change
• The fonts from "dreamery" were bitmapped and PS fonts, although a good idea, I replaced them back with the original Papyrus.dfont font file. - No Change
• Font Book still clearly shows the Papyrus font available.
• Opened a back-up copy of the same project from June that used Papyrus but didn't show any errors at the time. - No Change, missing font error is still displayed when opened now.
• Creating a new project that uses Papyrus font does not result in an error when opened... so far.
I can only conclude that the update to iWeb may have caused it to not properly read Domain.site files from previous versions correctly. At the moment, I do not have any additional time to devote to deleting iWeb and reinstall the original, install the progressive updates to see where the problem lies (if this works at all), and then figure out a way to update my Domain.site file so it can be read by the current version without an error. Seems more like a project for Apple software engineers than a frustrated artist in Illinois. I do not have the time to continue this insanity. I am not an I.T. manager and do not think using iWeb should require a degree in Computer Engineering.
I create and manage several websites using iWeb, thinking it will save me time, create better looking pages, and make them easier to update. But all of the iWeb projects have displayed this error at one time or another. The fix was to drag the font into the font folder within the user's library, but this time it didn't work.
I can't see continuing with such an unstable application as a major design tool for the basis of my income. In addition, with the mind-boggling fact that it has no "Save As" function thus making overwriting the wrong project too easy to do, and no simple way to create progressive back-ups, it makes it a hazard to use. Making all new projects is impossible because it automatically loads the last project edited, no "Open" dialog. So, to over come it, you must create your own "blank" Domain file, then duplicate it because iWeb will overwrite it when it saves, then drag your edited domain file to the folder you want because of the missing "Save As..." function. What the heck happened to Apple's famed "ease of use"?!! Microsoft aps aren't THIS bad!
I'd much rather find an application that takes more time to create a design, but is far more predictable in its use, functions, new & save project files and doesn't alter the results.
It will be quite awhile before I have the time to entirely re-do an existing project, so until then, I will go back and correct all of the fonts, spacing and alignment in my iWeb project manually; and tolerate the constant error messages for now. If anyone has any other ideas to eliminate the error message and/or how fonts should be managed so iWeb doesn't constantly lose track of them, I am open to any new ideas.
In the mean time, I will find a better program for creating websites.
A huge thanks to everyone for their time and effort assisting me with these issues that Apple has failed or refused to address.

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    If you print to the "Adobe PDF" PostScript printer driver instance from PowerPoint 2010 to create PDF, make sure you use joboptions that embed all fonts. The "out of the box" Standard joboptions do not do that. Try High Quality Print joboptions instead.
    (The next full version of Acrobat will fully support PDFMaker with Office 2010! Even then, it will be critical to set joboptions that embed all fonts with no exceptions!)
              - Dov

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