Missing Fonts on a pages document

I just opened a Pages document that I have opened many times before and it said error occured - aril Mt and and another arial MT bold of some sort font is missing.
I have never goofed with any fonts errors since I went to Macs maybe 6 years ago. It says to add it to your folder or just ccancel or continue.
how do i add it? where do i get it from and what folder do I insert in into when i find these 2 fonts?
Why did this happen?
I am stumped.
This is on a powerbook 12". I have not been able to check my macbook pro yet.
thank you.

I tried to summarize previous comments on this subject and ended up with this:
Pages can be very picky about fonts, even fonts you do not visibly use in a document. It is for example possible that a Style you do not use contains a font that is missing. It may also be part of a bullet list.
* Use Applications > Font Book to make sure you really have all the fonts that Pages complain about. If you do not, get them.
* If you think the missing fonts may come from MS Office you can go to Mactopia to download a test drive, which will install the fonts.
* If you think the missing fonts come from Pages, reinstall Pages.
* In Font Book, highlight the fonts Pages complains about, and go to File Validate, to make sure they are ok. Make sure there are no duplicates active.
* In the Finder, highlight the files of the fonts that Pages complains about. Drag them from the Fonts folder to the desktop and then back again to the Fonts folder.
* You can also try Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > Repair Permissions. (To be honest, I do not think I have ever heard of this actually fixing any problem, but it is theoretically possible.)
* Some people have reported solving the problem by "cleaning" the document saving it to another format. Try for example saving your Pages 2.0 document as Pages 1.0 and then reopen it. Warning! You may loose formatting here, so keep the original as back up.
* Restart.

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