after all those things, still the same result, Paul. Not looking good at all. May be time for a reinstall, albeit, FC3 this time. Anything before I do this..? Probably won't happen till the weekend, time permitting.
Does "xlsfonts" produce a long list of fonts?
How about "xlsfonts -fn fixed"?
What does "/usr/sbin/chkfontpath --list" say now?
Paul.