illegible windows media player

I just got the new windows media player from microsoft.com...version ten, and when the download was complete and i installed it, the program runs, but all of the text is in another language. actually, i'm not sure if it is a language, as it appears to just be symbols, almost like it's arabic or something. does anyone have any idea how i could fix this?

thanks,
ogre

 

A: The "Microsoft Sans Serif" font ( "sserife.fon" on Win9x, "micross.ttf" on NT, in the hidden "%windir%\fonts" directory) has become corrupted on your system. You'll need to reload or restore this font. [Also: Don't remove the Tahoma font. This is used by WMP for the Status Bar text.]
If you're still having font problems, the easiest way to diagnose which font is broken is, sadly, right-clicking on the Desktop, selecting Properties, and then selecting Appearance. On Windows XP you will need to click "Advanced" also. Then, click on the "Message Text" picture in the picture. Then change the "Font" option to be each of your fonts, one by one, until you see which font is corrupted.

Gotten via google:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=s...er font" problem&num=50&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wg

Worth a shot....