Missing font/substituted font in nav bar

I cannot seem to get rid of a rogue font on my site. It appears to be in the Navigation Bar that is part of the Modern webpage template (see script code below). This text box is not editable in iWeb as far as I can tell. Each time I go to a page in IWeb, I am prompted for the "missing font" Helvetica Neue H107. I got fed up with this so I added the font in FontBook and now it promts me still but for an error on the "substituted font".
Help!
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Helvetica Neue is one of the basic system fonts and is used my many iApps. Open Font Book and check to see if it is listed. If it is, deactivate and then reactivate it. See if that will solve the problem.
If you don't have it listed in Font Book do a search for it on your HD. If you find it double click on it to install.
If it's not found on your HD you can extract and install it from your system disk with Pacifist or download it from Toad's Cellar and install.
OT

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