WYSIWYG Font menu in AppleWorks

Still can't function without AppleWorks. It has been working just fine, even under Leopard on our new Intel iMacs.
But ...
Installed Adobe CS3 Web Standard a couple of days ago. Loads of extra Adobe fonts were installed with it.
Now when I try to set AppleWorks preferences to show actual fonts in font menus, AW crashes.
I remember this happening when OSX first came out. Someone suggested it was a corrupt or duplicate font causing it (Bauhaus). That was years ago. Where do I start now?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Could be a corrupt font, in which case a binary search would be the recommended technique for determining which one(s). Remove half the fonts, launch AppleWorks.
If it crashes again under the same circumstances, remove half of what's left and try again.
If it doesn't crash, Quit, reinstall half the fonts you took out and try again.
Repeat until you narrow it down to the one (or more than one) causing the problem.
Before that, though, I'd do a couple of first step trouble shooting tasks:
Repair Permissions using Disk Utility.
Delete AppleWorks's .plist and Preferences files, found at HD > yourname > Library > Preferences (> AppleWorks). com.apple.appleworks.plist is outside the AppleWorks folder, the rest are inside it.
And for good measure, although it's not likely the cause of this problem, delete all or most of the items in your Recent Items folder at HD > yourname > Documents > AppleWorks User Data > Starting Points > Recent items. Items in this folder are aliases to files. Deleting them does not affect the actual files.
Regards,
Barry

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