Postscript fonts on Intel MacBook Pro

I used a lot of postscript font families on my old Powerbook. Will these font packages function properly with the Intel processor? Do they use Rosetta, or are fonts already "universal" in design? Any problem with Word in particular, which is already a little buggy under Rosetta?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro 2Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

I have a new Intel MacBook Pro 17" running Tiger 10.4.7 and am pulling my hair out because of the MS Word crashing because of a font problem.
Have already lost countless hours trying to identify the source of the problem when all comes crashing down. Have narrowed it down to Word 2004 and a particular font that is used in ALL my old documents. The font checks OK in several font checking utilities. But Word crashes and brings the whole system down with it when trying to SAVE.
Obviously from past posts this crash does not appear limited to just one particular font or font style. If the problem is truly something in apple system software, I think they need to fix this QUICKLY! Apple.. are you listening!!! WE CAN'T WORK TILL YOU FIX THIS!
cheers,
SF

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