too many fonts/booting for a boot disc

[meltedminds]

So i goofed and downloaded too many fonts onto my mac and now it wont completely load the desktop, the pinwheel sits spinning forever. I was told that booting from a bootdisk then cleaning out the fonts would work. Only problem is i dont have a boot disk. My friend does have a mac although it's a newer imac probably running a newer version of os x (i'm on 10.3). Would a boot disk made from his computer be able to boot mine properly?

 

[Giaguara]

Boot in safe mode (hold down alt at startup).
And look for the bad fonts http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/badfonts.html
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/badfonts.html
http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/MacOSX_Font_TB.pdf
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25398

 

[meltedminds]

i thought safe mode was by holding down shift? i booted holding down shift and it didn't help.. is this different then holding down alt? i have 5000 fonts on my computer and someone said the reason it's hung up is that my system is trying to load them into memory

 

[jbarley]

You thought correctly, pressing "shift" while rebooting should put you in safe mode.
Pressing "Alt" brings up a select boot drive screen.

jb.

 

[meltedminds]

thanks jbarley.. so i'm still lost as to what to do seeing as how booting in safe mode doesn't work for me