Same old font problem..installed fonts not displaying..

I have been searching everywhere for a resolution to this problem, and while it's reported frequently, and there are various suggestions, I haven't found anything that works. Any advice would be appreciated.
The problem is that fonts that are installed on my computer do not display in Indesign but they do in other windows applications. Even more bizarre, Photoshop displays some of the ones that Indesign doesn't, but not all. In this particular case (although I am discovering other fonts) the main ones that are missing that are HUGHLY problematic are Arial Narrow and Arial Narrow Bold!!!
Information:
Using Windows Vista...did have to install a new harddrive, and I don't think this has worked properly since I did that, but did work on original harddrive. However, had the same problem on an XP machine a few years ago.
Indesign CS3...have verified that I have all updates.
Have deleted the fntcache.dat in windows and recreated it...no luck.
I tried copying the fonts to the Adobe font folder...still didn't work.
Installed FontValidator (from Windows I think) and ran it against my Arial files. It does show some errors/warning but I don't know what they mean. Several 'calculations didn't match...'. I can get the logs if this will help anyone.
Installed a font manager X-Fonter and have been loading/unloading and installing/uninstalling the fonts. I've moved fonts to external drives and deleted them. Anything I can think of in this arena..no luck.
I copied my Arial font files from an XP machine to the VISTA machine and again...no luck.
I apologize that I believe that this issue has been discussed to death, but nothing. I submitting a report to Adobe, but don't have high hopes of having a response. Any one know what to do with this? Is there a real way to tell if a font is corrupted?
thanks in advance!

I had to do a few extra things after applying the hotfix to resolve this issue on my PC (XP SP2 & CS3).
First, I followed the suggested workaround found at: http://indesignsecrets.com/hotfix-corrects-arial-narrow-problem-on-windows.php
Pointed browser to: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=956514&kbln=en-us
Downloaded hotfix "2007 Microsoft Office System".
Ran hotfix.
Searched hard disk for adobefnt*.lst and deleted all files found.
I performed these steps and still had no results. I tried a few things, but the following steps are what finally resolved the issue:
Navigated to the Windows\Fonts folder.
Selected the following files and did Edit/Copy
Arial (TrueType)
Arial Bold (TrueType)
Arial Bold Italic (TrueType)
Arial Italic (TrueType)
Arial Narrow (TrueType)
Arial Narrow Bold (TrueType)
Arial Narrow Bold Italic (TrueType)
Arial Narrow Italic (TrueType)
Navigated to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS3\Fonts
Did an Edit/Paste to paste the fonts into that folder.
(There was a file there called AdobeFnt11.lst; apparently it wasn't found in the global search on my hard disk, so I just deleted it.)
Navigated to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts
Did an Edit/Paste to paste the fonts into this folder as well.
For some reason I had to paste the new fonts (applied in the hotfix) into both of the folders above before it would work.
Anyway, for what it's worth, this resolved the issue on my PC.

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