Safari Odd Font Behavior

Hi, shortly before Christmas we replaced our old eMac with a new iMac running Leopard version 10.5.1 and Safari version 3.0.4. A couple of days ago, my wife installed some new software (Rosetta Stone, which is language learning software) and, since that installation, is reporting strange font behavior in Safari. Specifically, the spacing appears odd and letters appear to be overlapping where they shouldn't be.
Based on her description, I am suspecting there is a font conflict somewhere Rosetta Stone installed some fonts that are not playing nicely with Safari but, as I am still running Tiger and am 8,000 miles from home right now, I'm not in a position to tinker around in search of a solution. Any ideas/suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks.

Hi
I'm not familiar with Rosetta Stone, however, he two fonts that seem to adversely affect Safari are Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic.
Have your wife open Font Book in your Applications folder. Enter either of these names in the spotlight panel. If either appears, disable it via the Edit menu.
If the above referenced fonts applies to your situation, download a copy of Nuke Font. This will allow her to clean the Font cache.
When done, restart the computer/Safari.

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