Possessed Font !!!

Hi...
I've had my G5 since last November. At that time I did some funky stuff like changing font settings in Safari and Mail. One of the fonts I set things to was Andy. This is a font I've liked in the past but it showed up small and I wasn't able to read anything. Someone here told me what to do to get rid of it. It is no longer anywhere I can find on my computer. funny thing is that every once in awhile it would show up in my yahoo home page.
Now my BIG problem. Last week there was an update that I downloaded. Since then "Andy" has taken over my computer. It's showing up in my emails... many safari pages.. I can no longer read my yahoo home page !!
I've searched every where on my computer for it and can't locate the font. i deleted it months ago. Does anyone have any ideas ?? I'm going crazy here !!!
Many thanks to anyone that can solve this problem !!!
Holly
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

I'll be curious to know if that works for you, Holspen. I also have a mysterious ghost font that I can't get rid of, but mine doesn't show up in Font book at all.

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