Uninstalling the Arial Narrow hot fix ?

I have a bit of a dilemma. As many others here have experienced, when I went to Vista Home Premium on a new system and running Office 2007, the only Arial Narrow font showing up in InDesign CS2 was regular. I did some online research and read something about older versions of Arial Narrow fonts would fix the problem. I have a CD of fonts I copied from my previous system that has an older version of the Arial Narrow family than currently on my new system, so as a test I decided to install just one and see if it works. So I chose Arial Narrow Bold and installed the older version (v2.30) over the newer version (v2.37). Normally, I back up any files/fonts I'll be overwriting but didn't do it this time (old age setting in). Well, it didn't work and after reopening InDesign, Arial Narrow Bold was still not in the list.
I then read about the hot fix, so downloaded it and installed it as well as deleting all the AdobeFnt10.lst files on my system. I reopened InDesign and low and behold, all Arial Narrow fonts were in the list...except bold, the one I'd replaced. Thinking reinstalling the original version would get it back, I had a friend send me the 2.37 version of Arial Narrow Bold and installed it over the older version. Nothing. Still no bold showing up in the list even after again deleting all the AdobeFnt10.lst files.
This leads me to believe the hot fix only works when the original fonts are in the system at the time it's installed. Once the hot fix is installed, reinstalling the font after the fact doesn't work. Is that how it works? If so, I'm wondering if I were able to uninstall or somehow remove the hot fix, then reinstall it, I may get the bold back along with the others.
BTW, in checking the current versions of Arial Narrow that were loaded with my new system, they're all v2.40 except the bold which is v2.37. I had two of my friends who are running the same OS and Office check their Arial Narrow versions and their bold version is 2.37 as well.
If anyone knows how to remove the hot fix, please let me know.
DC

Take a look in Regedit at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts and see if you see all those numbered versions. That's the location in XP and it might be different for Vista, but you should be able to find it doing a registry search for Arial Narrow. I'd do this after deleting the font from the fonts folder.
Just to be safe, set a restore point, and back up the registry, because While I think it will be safe to edit this key, I haven't tried it and blind registry editing is always a risk.
If there are multiple entries, try deleting them all. If only one, double-click to see the value data and try editing to remove the number, or delete the entry entirely (probably better if the font has been removed).
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