The Case of the Missing Font

I have and use the translation Dashboard widget to, well...translate things, sometimes from English to Russian. The Russian alphabet is Cyrillic, and that font has, as recently as a month or so ago, been available for translations when I type a word in English and ask the widget to translate it into Russian. Yesterday, I attempted such a translation and the translated word was presented in some font that is definitely not Cyrillic. I don't know what the font is, but the characters for the translation of the word "school" were presented as школа.

Curious, I opened Font Book to see if Cyrillic was among the available fonts. Surprisingly, it was not. So I did a Spotlight search of the computer and found that Cyrillic is definitely there. It's in the Drive 1/Library/Fonts directory. Seems like a reasonable place. Its information preview shows that it's pretty old - created and last modified on 1/6/94, but as I said, it was working a month ago (assuming that the working font was the one that is still there). Its preview icon has the letters "FFIL" on it, and as I am not a font expert, I have no idea what that means as far as font types go.

So I figured OK, since it's there and has worked in the past, I'll go to font book and add it to the list, which I then tried to do. I selected "Add font..." chose Cyrillic, and it did not get added to the list. Nothing happened. Not knowing what to try next, I opened Safari, found Google's translator, and added it to my bookmarks.

I realize that Google Translator is probably a better overall solution to my problem than the translation widget anyway, but now my primary question is what has happened to what was a working Cyrillic font a month ago. Did some recent Software Update kill it unbeknownst to me? Am I not trying to add it to the available fonts correctly? Am I hallucinating? I expect Windows machines to do weird things, but it's very frustrating when my Mac does them too.

Thanks for any help.

Bob Krueger, fontless in San Diego