BAD FONTS .. giving me a bad day

[ilexeye]

I'm in a bad way with my new imac computer. Yesterday, I transferred a few hundred fonts into >library >fonts. I restarted my computer, and finder crashes and crashes and re-boots, and crashes. I started from my install disk, used disk utility. then started in safe mode, deleted a load of fonts that were highlighted in red, (i'm not sure why any are highlighted, nor does the person that gave me the fonts). it worked last night until i started photoshop today. and it crashed again and again. i went and bought fusion suitcase, and started in safe mode, deleting any corrupt font. when i restarted again, it won't let me start in safe mode or regularly. i goes to the desktop, flashes finder on and off, and reboots with a rainbow wheel.

any idea of what to do next?

thanx. -badmac

[Rhisiart]

Have you run disk utility again using the install disc?

BTW, I installed 250+ extra fonts some years ago on an older Mac and had a heap of problems. Ironically the fonts were fine. The OS simply slowed down due to font overload. I guess it depends on your computer power.

[Satcomer]

Well did you clear your Font Cache? The easy way is to restart into Safe Mode (restart by holding down the 'shift' key). Then restart and this will clear you Font Cache.

Also you can get several different free maintenance program like Yasu or Onyx and clear your Font Cache and a lot of other caches. It is good to run the cleaning/maintenance programs at least every two months.