More garbled text in Safari 3.2.1 Tiger

I'm running the latest Tiger 10.4.11 with all of the various updates and recently I've noticed that some web pages are loading with garbled text. This usually occurs with formatted text, like bold, a different color, italic, etc. If I open the exact same page (using the "develop" menu item) with either Camino or FireFox, I can actually read the page with no garbled text.
What gives? I've dumped the font caches (with FontFinangler) and even reinstalled Safari, with exactly the same result. I shouldn't be getting nonsense words when using my favorite web browser.
It seems that others have experienced this same issue with Safari while running Leopard.

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