Safari Fonts - Broken?

Greetings all,
I recently ran "software updates" and updated every on my mac that was not current. After that, I noticed that safari seems to have problems with displaying its fonts correctly on some pages. Such pages include Google.
Screenshot:
http://www.ppenn.org/tech/fonts.jpg
Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks for your help!
~Achithyn

Two articles that should help you, in addition to Barry's great advice:
From Kurt Lang:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/osxfonts.html
Read "Reinstalling your fonts" which will get you back to the default set.
Here's another good article on undoing Font Book:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/undofontbook.html
Another thing you could do is take the Home Folder>Users>Your Account>Library>Fonts
folder to the desktop. Are these where most of your freebies are stored? If so, take this folder to the desktop, or even better, to the Trash. Do NOT empty it. Restart Safari. Is the junk gone?
Just a few thoughts.

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