Strange font problem

[Joey Tsai <joeytsai joeytsai com>]

In some new gnome / gtk 2.0 applications, I'm getting a strange font rendering
problem.

Right now I have my font set to Tahoma, but in some widgets another font is used
instead.

This is best illustrated by a screenshot:
http://joeytsai.com/ugly.jpg

Which shows my font preferences, and two applications (gnumeric and gimp 1.3)
which are using a wider and fatter font than Tahoma.

Any clue how to fix this?  Thanks in advance.

    // joey tsai

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