Can you please give us the file name of the fonts you added.
Also can you give me the exact file location of fonts e.g c:\desktop\blahblah
Thanks we will endeavour to help..
The fonts I added were:

STJEDISE.TTF, Starjout.ttf, Starjedi.ttf, Stjldbl2.ttf, Starjhol.ttf, Strjmono.ttf, Strjmono.ttf

The location? Um...the first folder on the list after searching for "Fonts" (the one I assumed was the correct one) just SAYS, In Folder= Control Panel. The folder right below it that says Fonts, is in folder C:\WINNT. I can open that one and it has fonts in it, some TT but a lot that have an "A" on it with a .FON extension. I don't know if this is the one I am supposed to be looking at. The properties say, 75.0 MB (78,722,423 bytes) 60.2 MB (63,134,524 bytes) (I tried compressing the files to see if that was the problem) Contains: 274 files, 0 folders.

There's a couple other folders that say Fonts on them, C:\Program Files\Common Files, C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox, C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib

We are talking about Windows XP here, I trust? Because the C:\WINNT folder is what you get with Windows 2000. I think if you are running XP your installation could be an upgrade from Windows 2000. (Clean installs of XP get C:\WINDOWS as a default) Dunno if this is relevant...

c:\winnt\fonts is where you should be putting them.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314960
I think you're right Salmon Trout, must be some sort of downgrade from W2K.That might be so. I GOT my computer from a friend who works at a COMMUNITY college after the motherboard on my old computer went dead.

So....where does that put us? I still can't get into the Fonts folder from Control Panel. There isn't anything in the File command to install new fonts. Does it work in safe mode?
Nope. *sigh* I'll probably have to have someone come out and look at it. Copy & paste your fonts into your C:\winnt\fonts directory.I did and they don't show up when I go into Word or Photoshop.I was afraid of that, try re-booting you never know your luck.
I suspect your OS is slightly crippled being from a community college, I've come across this type of thing before.
There's a lot to be said for having a genuine and complete OS disk from Microsoft.