Odd Characters in Mail Application

I have recently started using the Mail application as I only have one license for Entourage which my wife uses. Everything was going well with Mail until I noticed that emails from people who use outlook arrived with letters the wrong way round in word ...for example kind regards is shown as kimd regords.
If I click on View then message then plain text alternative; this changes the email so I can read it however when I hit reply the original txt goes back to being in that funny spelling. Then the words that I type all look odd. So for instance my letters m and n are the other way round in a word like son or mum – they come out like som or nun!!
I have searched the forum to understand what to do here but have failed .....can anyone help please?
I am using a PB G4 Mac OS 10.4.7 – By the way I had to type this email from entourage ...whilst my wife had logged off!!!
Thanks
Med

You might try cleaning your font caches with FontFinagler (use google to find it).

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