PS1 fonts not accessible in CS4 & MS Office 2008 - but FontBook shows them

Desperate:
I just installed Snow Leopard and found that in all of Creative Suite 4 and Office 2008 my Postscript Type 1 fonts are not available or accessible. The font Book lists them (I removed duplicates and indicated problem fonts, which actually never were problems in OS 10.5). I tried all kinds of install, delete, re-install etc. to no avail. Everything worked great under OS 10.5. (Same results on my wife's computer; both newest iMacs).
I spent hours reading blogs, comments etc. on the internet, but found no answers — even have the feeling the problem is completely ignored by Apple, Adobe and Microsoft. Yet the livelihood of a graphic designer depends on it.
I have hundreds of carefully designed documents, important design jobs that I constantly have to use again, and I spent a fortune on type libraries with over ten thousand quality fonts by different foundries — a treasure I don't want to lose.
Is there any answer to it? Otherwise I have to go back to 10.5

First, I am not speaking of the pre-installed fonts or those that come automatically with programs.
Yes, I realize that as you clearly stated you are unable to use Type 1 PostScript fonts. My response of "any" included Type 1 fonts. I can pull Type 1 PS fonts from an Illustrator 8 disk and use them with no issue, nor any other Type 1 fonts I have (thousands). Same goes for all other types of Fonts OS X supports.
After upgrading to 10.6 (no fool around or extras, just plain upgrade) all these fonts are not accessible anymore out of the CS4 Suite or Office Suite, which is basically all I need and use (well, also Filemaker).
This is partly why I asked you to create a new test account. I'm trying to see if it's just your existing account that's not working (which would mean the problem is only in your account), or if the fonts don't work with any account, even a new one (which would mean a system wide problem).
FontBook should be mature and good enough to handle the fonts,
Font Book has been around for four versions of OS X now, but it's still a light use font manager. Anyone in prepress, design or whatever a person does who handles a lot of fonts regularly should be using a more heavy duty font manager.
and I also tried Font Explorer X, which didn't help either.
So it's either a problem with your system overall, or your account. Please try a new account to rule out one or the other.

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