Text in Safari is jumbled and overlapping

I also have a similar problem, I posted a thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5420773

I started having this problem after upgrading to 10.4.10... I tried everything and can't get it to work right. I don't think this problem is only in Safari. When I go to Software Update, in the description box i get cut-off and overlapping text.

What do you have in Safari > Preferences, Advanced, for the setting, "Never use font sizes smaller than _"?

The default for that setting is 9. If you have it set higher, it forces text to be larger, which on some web pages will result in the overlapping text that you're seeing.

It's a long shot, but do you have a user-specified style sheet in the same preferences pane, where it says "Style Sheet"?

If not, do you use any Safari-enhancing programs installed? If so, I'd check to see if there's anything that specifies font sizes there.

Disable "Times Phonetic" and "Helvetica Fractions" fonts or you might have a corrupted font cache file, here's a good link to fix jumbled fonts <http://homepage.mac.com/macdrben/blogwavestudio/LH20041002162344/LHA2006053118 2558/index.html>

edit: replaced with better link

Message was edited by: virtudesign

I understand your frustration. Here's how I solves the same problem:
1) Locate your Font Book file in your Application folder and open.
2) Find the font that most closely resembles the wacky font that you have. Mine was "Jungle". Move your cursor over the font.
3) Go to edit on the toolbar, then click on "disable..(font name)..family". This turns the font off.
4) Close the window and quit Safari.
5) Re-open Safari
6) If no change in the text, find another font that resembles it and disable that.

It worked for me. Good luck!

If you're still having this problem, go to my thread here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5420773 to get the solution.

To further illustrate the problem, here's a screenshot of how THIS page looks like in my Safari browser: