Missing Fonts - help

I dont know how this happened, but recently i have not been able to work on iWeb for a period of time (less than a couple of minutes) without it closing automatically. It gives me an error message saying 'iWeb quit unexpectedly while using the SFWordProcessing plugin.'
I tried staring my macbook pro in safe mode and opening iWeb and it said it was missing 2 fonts - ArialMT and Arial - BoldMT. I have had a look in Font Book and these two fonts are not there. Is there somewhere i can download these fonts so i can add to font book. I have read that an option is to copy these fonts from another Mac however i do not have access to one.
Thanks in advance

The older version of iWeb (3.0.1) had a problem with "iWeb quit unexpectedly while using the SFWordProcessing plugin" and there are a couple of fixes for this.
Having said that, if you have the latest version of OS X 10.6.5 and iWeb V 3.0.2 these should not apply.
Try quitting iWeb, deleting the .plist - Home Folder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWeb.plist - rebooting your Mac and running Disk Utility to repair permissions.

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