Safari/Firefox Font problem

Hey everyone, i downloaded some new fonts to use for photoshop and pixelmator but after i was done it installed one of the fonts as some kind of default in both my internet browsers. not all the font but some of it is now some graffitti font and its incredibly hard to read.
Thought i fixed it twice already but no dice!
Help?

Cobal --
You need to find the culprit font, because it's conflicting with your regular fonts.
One really weird one is called "Alien."
At any rate, what you have to do is open up for Font Book application
and just take the time to look at the sample of each font in there.
The problem font is written poorly and is replacing one of the usual ones on webpages.

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