Updating to Mountain Lion changed the default system font

I finally got around to updating my system to 10.8.3 last night. As soon as the installation was complete, I noticed the system default font seems to have changed. I've attached an screencap to show exactly what I mean, I know it's not specific to my current browser because this is shown across Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc. Any ideas how to remedy?

Found this in the suggested posts- https://discussions.apple.com/message/21450701#21450701
Solution: check for duplicate fonts in FontBook, resolve all.

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