Reinstalling fonts from system disk

I need to reinstall the Helvetica and Times fonts that came with Tiger 10.4, but I don't want to reinstall the system and go through all the updates. In fact the 10.4.7 installer won't install on top of 10.4.10 anyway. Even if it did, the Custom Install option doesn't let you install just the basic fonts (you can only install additional foreign-language fonts). Is there a way to grab just a couple fonts off the Tiger disk?

Restoring Lost OS X Files
If you erase or otherwise "lose" an OS X system application or utility (such as Mail or Disk Utility, for example) you can restore them without having to reinstall OS X.
Download the shareware utility Pacifist. Read the documentation. Use Pacifist to extract a fresh copy of the missing application from the file archives on your OS X Installer disc. The file archives are usually found on the installer disc in the /System/Installations/ folder.
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