Unread Mail Badge showing as a "Letter"

For some odd reason, Mail on my home Mac (Dual 867 G4 - MDD) has started displaying my unread mail indicator with a single letter, like the letter "D" for 1 unread or the letter "F" for 4 unread. This is occuring in both my Dock mail icon "badge" and in my mailbox sidebar.
Very odd. I am running Font Agent Pro 3.0.1 but I am not managing System Fonts with it.
Anyone heard of this before?
J.E. Flynn
Dual G5 2Gig AND a Dual G4 867 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

FYI, I just updated my Font Agent Pro to the latest 3.2.
Repaired permissions.
Still broken.
J.E. Flynn

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