Safari fonts go bad!??

This started 2 days ago. I seem to have a problem where certain websites (TUAW, MacDaily News) display perfectly after a restart, but after some time the fonts seem to no longer be displayed. If I restart, fine, and then they will at some point go belly up. I've gone to Font Book and made sure the necessary fonts are turned on (they are) and I cannot seem to get this to stop. I'm now using Firefox which doesn't seem to have that problem.
Any thoughts or ideas on how to fix this? I really enjoy Safari but if I can't see the web page, it is worthless to me.

Open the Console app /Applications/Utilities
Type font in the search field top right corner of the window. Any messages may give you an idea of why Safari is displaying the capital A's.
And try typing in Lucida Grande. That one may be the cullprit.
And try validating fonts from the FontBook file menu.
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