Strange fonts in Lion

Hi,
Upgraded to Lion and apart from the incredible slowness, I'm finding a weird font issue. Some menu items and other pop-ups seem to be written in arabic (or another language with different letters). Anyone else seen this? Any solutions?

Try going to system prefs/language & text/language and using the Edit button to uncheck the box for Arabic, then restart.

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