Safari not displaying web text correctly...

Under my admin account, in Safari, lots of sites displays text inaccurately, namely each letter presents as a capital A in a square box, while what I assume is background/template where text is in effect graphic displays fine...
Firefox displays the sites accurately...
sample web page ... http://www.arnoldclark.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brendansca/5497713875/in/photostream/ image via Firefox
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brendansca/5498307758/in/photostream/ image via SAFARI
Under other accounts on same laptop, sites present as expected under Safari and Firefox

Dai --
It looks like you have a problems with the LucidaGrande font.
Here's a Quote from Kurt Lang on this subject:
+A’s with boxes around them is always a sign of trouble with the main system+
+font, Lucida Grande.+
+Quick possible fix is to remove ALL font cache files from the system to see+
+if it's just bad cache data. For that, you need to use OnyX or other utility+
+which will remove both system and user cache files. A Safe Mode boot won't+
+work since it only removes cache data from the user account you do a safe+
+boot to.+
+If after that the problem returns, then Lucida Grande itself is damaged and+
+needs to be replaced.+

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