Pacman -Su - X fonts / fluxbox problem

Dang, I'm sorry to pile in with a ton of problems, but this one has really knocked me out.
I just did pacman -Sy and then pacman -Su and I seem to have completely hosed the X font server. I seem to remember reading something somewhere about this recently, but now i can't find it.
The upgrade didn't go smoothly and I've probably screwed something up.
First it crashed in the download complaining of xemacs-sumo from unofficial. I removed this package and then it completed the download and moved to dependency check.
Then the dependency check kept complaining about a ton of stuff in:
/usr/share/cups/model/... and
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ something.mo
as well as the same file in a few other languages ja, and two or three others.
Here I probably did a bad thing,I deleted these directories and files.
This let the upgrade proceed to completion but it wasn't good afterward.
At first I tried to fire up mozilla and I just get Exit 1. Then I exited X and rebooted but afterward, when I startx, fluxbox has these microscopic menus and slot. I exit X and find messages complaining about missing fonts.
Any advice (other than Hit the Road 8-) is very much appreciated.
Thank You...
John E. A.

if you really want to have the 1.4a version of mozilla then:
as root run :
abs
then:
cd /usr/abs/network/mozilla
<youreditor> PKGBUILD
change the pkver line to 1.4a then edit the source=() to the prper url to the 1.4a source.
then issue:
makepkg
sit back and wait while it compiles. when it is done
pacman -U mozilla-1.4a-1.pkg.tar.gz
you do not need to install the lib or include packages that are also built.
the whole process will take about an hour if you are using about a 1.53 GHz chip.

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