Upgraded to Snow Leopard, font problems in Safari

When I open a few webpages, and the normal Times font displays like a distressed version, with extra splotches above certain letters, the "L" is elongated, "V" "S" & "N" all have accents over the lower-case letters. I check the preferences in Safari, and the default settings are in place -- default encoding Western ISO Latin 1.
I checked the same web pages on my other Mac that I upgraded at the same time (same disks, a Mac Family pack), and they display correctly.
Obviously some setting on my first Mac is different. Any suggestions about where to look first?
Thanks,

Could just be corrupt font cache files.
Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and all user font cache files. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.

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