Safari Text Appearing Bunched Up

Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum, so go easy scoundrels..
I've been having this problem for a while - basically, when I view certain pages on safari the text appears all bunched up with disregard to what lines or spacing there should be...
Now, it didn't bother me too much, because it doesn't happen on very many sites (a notable one is imdb.com), but I've recently bought dreamweaver for mac, and previewing sites has become a nightmare, as much of the text doesn't work - and it does when I use dreamweaver preview on other computers... so it must be a fault with my computer, rather than a fault with the websites...
Here is a screengrab of what it looks like - any ideas would be massively appreciated...
http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1hd3.png
Cheers...

Hi
Welcome to Apple Discussions
The two fonts that seem to adversely affect Safari are Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic.
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 Font Nuke. This will allow you to clean the Font cache.
When done, restart the computer/Safari.

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