Interface font invisible in OOo1.0.1-6/Woody/K3.1RC6

[Alexander Antoniades <sander@antoniades.com>]

I've seen this bug reported in various places with various results. In every 
other application fonts work normally, but throughout OOo I can't see any 
menus or anything, even in setup.

This bug is the same as:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2612

There seems to be some confusion over what exactly causes this, the 
information I was able to dig up on Google indicated the problem is:

a) The font engine can display very small fonts.

b) There is a TrueType font in the base MS fonts package that has an alias 
similar to the interface font and somehow the interface font becomes 
obscured.

c) some configuration file has become messed up.

Is there anything that can anyone can recommend besides uninstalling truetype 
support? I spent a fair amount of time getting the fonts the way I like them, 
and the underlying font infrastructure seems somewhat convoluted at this 
point in time and I'm not sure how much effort it will take to get my fonts 
working again, if I mess with them to get OOo working.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Sander