Wanting to kill the tiger frustrations

I'm having a frustrating, work lossing, everything going wrong day, please understand my tone if I get rude. I'm running 10.4.3, and have had several frustrations with it. I unknowingly tried to organize and control my fonts via FontBook - and messed everything up, when I first got my ibook and was excited about Tiger. Well, in order to help salvage the disaster, as I was suggested, I erased fonts that seemed ridiculous and wasting space. This turned out not so well. So did a clean install 10.4.1 and updated to 10.4.2 at the time; however no font issues have been solved. Besides having a mess of fonts that will never be used which are not organized in (********) programs like Word 2004, I never have the same selection of fonts in other programs; ie Adobe CS, TextEdit etc. How do I get this back to ok? What program is recommended to organize fonts, like the good ole days of ATM...
Is 10.4.4 more stable? Varied programs get stuck and do not respond often enough and force quit wont fix them. I repair permissions via Disk Utility often and try to fix unknown (to me) issues with TechTool Pro 4.0.1. Please don't tell me I need to reformat the hard drive.... and reinstall. And why would re-installing fix what clean installing hasn't?!
thanks
ibook g4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

When you say you did a Clean Install I'm guessing you mean Archive & Install.
When you do this it preserves your Home Folder and replaces the OS. Therefore, when you deleted fonts via Font Book (most were probably User fonts) you won't get them back with an Archive & Install because your Home folder wasn't touched.
Refer Dr. Smoke's article about this:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/undofontbook.html
Or Kurt Langs:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122011
EDIT: Look all the way at the bottom of Kurt's post. It should be your solution. Then read the rest later if you want.
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