User font preferences don't hold

I see that back in September, another Brooklynite posted about this problem that I have always had for iChat (right now v.429, but has always been a problem for me). http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1024102&#1024102
Basically, my default user settings have the font set to Helvetica 12pt FRACTIONS of all things! So my messages, incoming and outgoing, are complete gobblety-gook. I have managed to set the incoming messages to a different font, which seems to hold (thank god), but the outgoing won't change. MADDENING! Especially when saving transcripts for business is important. Any ideas?

HI Caltlin,
The solution is to disable Helvetica Fractions from the whole system with Font Book.
Helvetica fractions has been a problem for some Apple Applications for a while.
If the Font is not acitve on the MAc then iChat will not be ale to use it for Incoming or Outgoing Text messages.
Ralph

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