All verdana screen print in italics?

Hello everyone,
Got something weird...as if we haven't heard THAT before...

For some reason, on my last reboot, any text on-screen (in Firefox, Outlook, or anything else) that's in the Verdana font is in italics. If I go to the appearance settings and click the 'I' icon to toggle between italic and regular, it doesn't change (but if I press 'B' it changes to regular bold and loses the italic slant). I thought it might'a been a registry muff but there's only four entries for "Verdana" in regedit and they didn't seem to help.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance,
Marc

 

Lightstorm--Some ideas here
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win2000/Q_21322780.html
(If you cannot access, the suggestion was to use http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm, though the actual problem had to do with installing some game.)
http://www.windowsbbs.com/search.php?searchid=79565