Slowdown after the Latest Tiger update

I posted this in response to many having issues with computer slow down after the latest tiger patch. I thought i'd post it on it own.. Hopefully it will help.
I don't know if anyone has stated this already, but the most recent update ends up loading and turning on just about every font in your computer.
You need to go into Font Book and turn off the ones you don't need.
We have 5 computer in our office and this was the issue with every one of them. After turning off all the extra fonts and restarting, everything was back up to speed and working.
Additionally, MS Word and Excel would choke when launched.. i guess they don't have the resources to handle large numbers of fonts. After we turned all the extras off they now work as normal... (There's a joke there somewhere but i'll leave it alone for now)
I hope this helps a lot of you.

I second this. Made a massive difference when I deactivated the Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc fonts as I never use them.
Thanks for the tip Marshall.

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