Morphium, you could have a corrupted fonts folder. I've seen this mainly happen when a program is uninstalled and the font that is linked to it by the fonts folder is orphan. Also, if your fonts are just shortcuts all over your hard drive this can slow down the fonts folder and maybe crash it. I always choose the option to copy the fonts directly to the fonts folder. That way if you un-install a program, it won't remove the font linked by the fonts folder. Try looking for shortcut symbols in your fonts folder, and see if they actually exist. You may even find exclamation marks signalling a problem in your fonts folder. If you find existing shortcuts try copying those fonts directly to your fonts folder. I had this problem in Win98 and I had a corrupted fonts folder because of this problem. You can also try running Spybot. Specifically, Norton Windoctor showed me this error back when I was using Win98SE. It might find the errors in your fonts folder, or their orphan associations/misplaced associations in your registry.
