Safari (web) Font Display NIGHTMARE %= P

This call for "HEEEEELP" might be better placed into the Support section for "Fonts" but, here goes...
Safari (as well as all other browsers i have, but dont often use, here on my G4 laptop) started, just this morning, showing the nuttiest font for portions of each and (darn near) every web page i browes to.
I hope i can post the screen-shot of it here to this forum but dont know if i can. Perhaps it doesn't matter. Needless to say i can OVER-ride it by choosing, if prefs, to force my own font choices to overide those of each website i visit but that's no fix, no fun, and no solution for what i am suffereing here.
Please help!
Thanks
David
[email protected]
PS: my suspicion is that it has to do with having imported a whole bunch of fonts off and older back-up archive from my g-3 but how that = this prob i have no idea.... i mean i already had a TON of fonts (standard and "nutty") installed/running on my system. ???

Interestingly enough: this FONT problem prevades also my Apple EMAIL application....but WHICH font or what type of font is it that is now being substituted for this wacky one?!?!
Could i just use Font Book to find THIS font that is being substituted and just delete it? What are the websites and the emails "pointing" to in my system fonts to get this crazy result?...and what were they "pointing to" before such that it always looked fine?
AAAAaaargh!
little help would be SO appreciated!

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