System fonts deleted....whoops

I installed Suitcase to manage my fonts, and when I tried to activate the fonts, a window popped up with a message that said there was a conflict with fonts in my system fonts folder, suggesting I delete them and restart. Upon doing so and restarting, my computer no longer boots up past the initial blue screen. my mouse/curser is still active, but it's locked up. I'm positive it has to do with my deleting the fonts, the question is, what can i do to fix?

Take a look here - towards the bottom
http://www.tcinternet.net/users/jklstudios/temp/osx4.html
If you can't get your own system up, you could start up as a target disk from another mac - using a firewire cable - your mac will show up as a hard drive - then run the font install from that mac as described in that document.
If you can't do this then I'm afraid you need to do an archive and install from the DVD - which should preserve everything but reinstall the OS.
Best of luck.

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