Safari font looks scrambled, Want a fix

The font on Safari (especially if is bold) looks scrambled. From Google if I search for example safari the font on the results page looks scrambled. I don't know how to post a screen shot on this page. If I knew it how, I would.
MacOS 1.5.6.
Bought my macbook last october.
It was working well till a week ago.
Safari version 3.2.1

Have you added any new fonts? If so, then remove them.

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