Problems viewing text after installing snow leopard

Im geting capital A's in side a box for areas on websites. any help would be apprecitated

Hilgy --
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
And Merry Christmas!
OK, that Box with the A in it usually indicates that something has happened to the
LucidaGrande.dfont font in your SYSTEM>Library>Fonts folder. Did you do any "housekeeping"
with your fonts???

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