Network Library Fonts

Hi all,
I recently created a soft link to a Networked filespace and now have an alias in the Network directory
/Network/Library -> <nework file space>
I do this in a startup script that I created in /Library/StartupItems. In this script I make sure I get rid of the automount Library alias.
But my Mac will only see my "Network Library Fonts" some of the times.
It will always see my "Network Library Sounds".
So I'm curious why this may the case. In the font book, it shows "Network" as disabled, but it will not let me enabled it.
Is there a process that reads in the fonts at startup. Maybe my startup script is running into some race conditions, if there is such a process.
Any insight is much appreciated. Thanks..

OK, I was doing something really dumb here and I've fixed it (I have another folder called "fonts" outside the library folder, duh. Still, it seems that if fonts are in folders (instead of loose) the client systems can't see them. Is this expected behaviour?
When they're in local font folders this is fine though. As there are about 350 fonts that we have installed it's nice to have them all neatly grouped in folders (as there are only about 25 families, just lots of styles in them).

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Short Version
The short version of my question is in the subject (specifically, I'm referring to files of type afm, pfb, pfa and maybe some other sort of pf? located in /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/)
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