I deleted the .plist file (after much difficulty getting to and emptying the trash) and restarted to no avail.
I then disabled all fonts in FontBook, logged out and back in with the same result. I tried creating a new user and logging in under that as well with no improvement. I really...
I have an older iBook G4 (2001). About a week ago, all of my menus/filenames/etc turned suddenly to symbols. I haven't installed any new software...closest thing would be system updates for existing software. I tried hooking it up to another computer via Firewire and ran DriveGenius to repair...