Pages '09 Character Spacing No Longer Working

So I tried the new Pages 5 today and it is lacking too many features to count, but most notably for me facing pages and character spacing. I went back to use Pages '09 (version 4.3) and character spacing no longer works for many fonts.
For example, with Century Gothic, when I increase the font size, the characters overlap. When I decreate the font size, they space out like crazy. It's like the physical space the letters take up stays the same regardless of the font size. The character spacing slider in inspector does not work at all for these problem fonts.
Here are some screen shots of the wonky character spacing:
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I am kind of freaking out - I use Pages to lay out books for my clients and I have no idea what to do. Can anyone help me figure out what to do? I suspect Pages '09 is no longer working for me as a result of the Mavericks upgrade, but I really don't know since I just upgraded to Mavericks a few days ago and hadn't been using Pages with anything other than the Calibri and Impact fonts (which are working fine) since then. Today I started a new book in Pages 5, discovered Century Gothic wouldn't work, so tried to go back to Pages 4.3 and discovered the problem.
Thanks in advance for anyone's assistance!

Okay, so I think I fixed my issue of some fonts not spacing properly in Pages '09 since I updated to Mavericks and installed Pages 5. It's weird though (at least to me)!
1) I tried deleting and reinstalling the font... that didn't work.
2) Per the suggestion in another post, I checked Pages '09 in another account on this computer. I logged out of my account and logged into the guest user account. I opened Pages '09.
3) I typed something into a blank document. The default font was Helvetica, but it was showing up very weird - all these accented, unrecognizable characters. I tried Century Gothic (the font I've been using as an example in this thread). It worked fabulously! I could increase the font, decrease the font, etc. and it behaved normally - no wonky spacing or overlapping characters.
4) Confused by why Helvetica was no longer working now, I opened up FontBook in the guest user account. To my surprise, there were at least a dozen duplicate fonts... this was not an issue in the main account I was having the issue in. Incidentally, Helvetica was NOT one of the fonts with a duplicate - it validated fine.
5) I highlighted all of the fonts and selected to resolve duplicates automatically.
6) I went back into Pages '09 (I may have quit and restarted the application) in the guest user account (same account I was already in). Suddenly, Helvetica was working. Century Gothic was working. Everything seemed to be working.
7) I logged out of the guest user account and logged back into my main account.
8) I re-opened Pages '09 and started a new document. It still works! I looked in FontBook. It looks exactly like how it looked before - no duplicate fonts.
SO: Although no one has ever used the guest account on this computer, it seems to me that somehow its FontBook was totally messed up and somehow resolving the duplicate fonts in the guest user FontBook also fixed my issue in my own account (even though there were no duplicates in that FontBook in the first place).
I am thrilled that this is working, but confused as to why. If any of you smartie pants' out there can shed some light, it would be mucho appreciated.
I hope this helps somebody!!

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