My iMac PPC has little A's with boxes around them instead of text?

After my son's visit from NYC my iMac PPC OS 10.4.11 now has A's with boxes around them instead of usual names across the top of the screen. No more File Edit etc across the top of the screen?

That's usually caused by a third-party font manager competing with FontBook. Check the links in this old thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15900552#15900552
And speak sternly to your son if he installed a font manager

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Back up all data.
Launch the Font Book application and validate all fonts. You must select the fonts in order to validate them. See the built-in help and the support article linked below for instructions. If Font Book finds any issues, resolve them, then boot in safe mode* (by holding down the shift key at the startup chime) to rebuild the font caches. Boot again as usual and test.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
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Welcome!
Please look at this post in the Tiger forums:
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example
(see red)
Please help

AxialInfo wrote:
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<Notes
> # end of Notes
<Para
<Unique 1291794>
<Pgf
 <PgfTag `Body'>
 <PgfUseNextTag No>
 <PgfNextTag `'>
 <PgfAlignment Right>
 <PgfFIndent 0.0">
 <PgfLIndent 0.0">
 <PgfRIndent 0.0">
 <PgfFIndentRelative No>
 <PgfFIndentOffset 0.0">
 <PgfTopSeparator `'>
 <PgfTopSepAtIndent No>
 <PgfTopSepOffset 0.0">
 <PgfBotSeparator `'>
 <PgfBotSepAtIndent No>
 <PgfBotSepOffset 0.0">
 <PgfPlacement Anywhere>
 <PgfPlacementStyle Normal>
 <PgfRunInDefaultPunct `. '>
 <PgfSpBefore 0.0 pt>
 <PgfSpAfter 0.0 pt>
 <PgfWithPrev No>
 <PgfWithNext No>
 <PgfBlockSize 1>
 <PgfFont
 <FTag `'>
 <FPlatformName `W.Arial.R.700'>
 <FFamily `Arial'>
 <FVar `Regular'>
 <FWeight `Bold'>
 <FAngle `Regular'>
 <FEncoding `FrameRoman'>
 <FSize 14.0 pt>
 <FUnderlining FNoUnderlining>
 <FOverline No>
 <FStrike No>
 <FChangeBar No>
 <FOutline No>
 <FShadow No>
 <FPairKern Yes>
 <FTsume No>
 <FCase FAsTyped>
 <FPosition FNormal>
 <FDX 0.0%>
 <FDY 0.0%>
 <FDW 0.0%>
 <FStretch 100.0%>
 <FLanguage USEnglish>
 <FLocked No>
 <FSeparation 0>
 <FColor `Black'>
 > # end of PgfFont
 <PgfLineSpacing Fixed>
 <PgfLeading 3.0 pt>
 <PgfAutoNum No>
 <PgfNumTabs 0>
 <PgfHyphenate Yes>
 <HyphenMaxLines 2>
 <HyphenMinPrefix 3>
 <HyphenMinSuffix 3>
 <HyphenMinWord 5>
 <PgfLetterSpace No>
 <PgfMinWordSpace 90>
 <PgfOptWordSpace 100>
 <PgfMaxWordSpace 110>
 <PgfMinJRomanLetterSpace 0>
 <PgfOptJRomanLetterSpace 25>
 <PgfMaxJRomanLetterSpace 50>
 <PgfMinJLetterSpace 0>
 <PgfOptJLetterSpace 0>
 <PgfMaxJLetterSpace 10>
 <PgfYakumonoType Floating>
 <PgfAcrobatLevel 0>
 <PgfPDFStructureLevel 5>
 <PgfLanguage USEnglish>
 <PgfCellAlignment Top>
 <PgfCellMargins 0.0 pt 0.0 pt 0.0 pt 0.0 pt>
 <PgfCellLMarginFixed No>
 <PgfCellTMarginFixed No>
 <PgfCellRMarginFixed No>
 <PgfCellBMarginFixed No>
 <PgfLocked No>
> # end of Pgf
<ParaLine
 <TextRectID 119>
 <String `Downblast Centrifugal'>
> # end of ParaLine
> # end of Para
<Para
<Unique 1291795>
<PgfTag `Body'>
<Pgf
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 <PgfFont
 <FTag `'>
 <FPlatformName `W.Arial.R.700'>
 <FFamily `Arial'>
 <FVar `Regular'>
 <FWeight `Bold'>
 <FAngle `Regular'>
 <FEncoding `FrameRoman'>
 <FSize 14.0 pt>
 <FUnderlining FNoUnderlining>
 <FOverline No>
 <FStrike No>
 <FChangeBar No>
 <FOutline No>
 <FShadow No>
 <FPairKern Yes>
 <FTsume No>
 <FCase FAsTyped>
 <FPosition FNormal>
 <FDX 0.0%>
 <FDY 0.0%>
 <FDW 0.0%>
 <FStretch 100.0%>
 <FLanguage USEnglish>
 <FLocked No>
 <FSeparation 0>
 <FColor `Black'>
 > # end of PgfFont
 <PgfLeading 3.0 pt>
> # end of Pgf
<ParaLine
 <String `Exhaust Ventilator'>
> # end of ParaLine
> # end of Para
<Para
<Unique 1291796>
<PgfTag `Body'>
<Pgf
 <PgfAlignment Right>
 <PgfFont
 <FTag `'>
 <FPlatformName `W.Arial.R.700'>
 <FFamily `Arial'>
 <FVar `Regular'>
 <FWeight `Bold'>
 <FAngle `Regular'>
 <FEncoding `FrameRoman'>
 <FSize 14.0 pt>
 <FUnderlining FNoUnderlining>
 <FOverline No>
 <FStrike No>
 <FChangeBar No>
 <FOutline No>
 <FShadow No>
 <FPairKern Yes>
 <FTsume No>
 <FCase FAsTyped>
 <FPosition FNormal>
 <FDX 0.0%>
 <FDY 0.0%>
 <FDW 0.0%>
 <FStretch 100.0%>
 <FLanguage USEnglish>
 <FLocked No>
 <FSeparation 0>
 <FColor `Black'>
 > # end of PgfFont
 <PgfLeading 3.0 pt>
> # end of Pgf
<ParaLine
 <String `Roof Mounted'>
> # end of ParaLine
> # end of Para
<Para
<Unique 1291797>
<PgfTag `Body'>
<Pgf
 <PgfAlignment Right>
 <PgfFont
 <FTag `'>
 <FPlatformName `W.Arial.R.700'>
 <FFamily `Arial'>
 <FVar `Regular'>
 <FWeight `Bold'>
 <FAngle `Regular'>
 <FEncoding `FrameRoman'>
 <FSize 14.0 pt>
 <FUnderlining FNoUnderlining>
 <FOverline No>
 <FStrike No>
 <FChangeBar No>
 <FOutline No>
 <FShadow No>
 <FPairKern Yes>
 <FTsume No>
 <FCase FAsTyped>
 <FPosition FNormal>
 <FDX 0.0%>
 <FDY 0.0%>
 <FDW 0.0%>
 <FStretch 100.0%>
 <FLanguage USEnglish>
 <FLocked No>
 <FSeparation 0>
 <FColor `Black'>
 > # end of PgfFont
 <PgfLeading 3.0 pt>
> # end of Pgf
<ParaLine
 <String `Belt Drive'>
> # end of ParaLine
> # end of Para
> # end of TextFlow
I don't see the red in there
I made another pdf, after deleting the red bar (it's a eps.) and the reb boxes are still there
 I'm not using any master.
Thanks for the advice anyhow
-Matt

My iMac PPC has little A's with boxes around them instead of text?

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