So I installed a bunch of PS patterns yesterday and was fooling around. No problems there. Today I installed my old [and some new] collection of fonts, around 989 in all. I tried to use the text tool in PS CS4 and the program wants to close itself.

I get this error

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Photoshop.exe
Application Version: 11.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 48d38aa7
Fault Module Name: BIB.dll
Fault Module Version: 1.2.1.1744
Fault Module Timestamp: 48b5fcc0
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000001a1c6
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 53f5
Additional Information 2: 53f5eb4b9afa8ae7ca60b85d58f08ed4
Additional Information 3: 7c54
Additional Information 4: 7c54af5d9a17d0da5b9fef51177d81d8

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Any ideas?

Remove the fonts and add them in smaller groups until you isolate the problem?

How do i remove them?
I didn't copy and paste them into a fonts folder, C because I couldnt find it
I dragged and dropped them into the fonts folder in the control panel.

i dont think i can remove them........??

The same folder that has the title 'Preview, delete, or show and hide the fonts installed on your computer'?

Ok i see now
I've organized the fonts by 'last modified'

could i delete them all and then start putting in a few at time or are some required do you think? I mean i don't want to delete system fonts

Yeah, it's definitely a good idea to not have that many fonts installed at once. "Exception Code: c0000005" is a memory error. Try using AMP Font Viewer -- among other things, it lets you browse uninstalled fonts and install/uninstall them on demand when you want to use them (plus it's free). Also, your fonts should be in C:\Windows\Fonts\.

working with the program now it doesnt seem too helpful. i can't shift and select more than 1 font at a time

this is gonna take a while to remove them all

and how the heck do i know which ones i installed and which ones are system defaults?

I had a similar issue with CS5 on Win7 64.
At first I also assumed it was the pack of 1500 fonts I installed, but the NVidia DDS plugin turned out to be the culprit in my case.
So if you don't get anywhere with your fonts and you installed any plugins recently those might be worth a look as well.

Deleted most of them
strange now my default font is bolded
even now as i'm typing
not a huge issue. everything is working now