Installing fonts from terminal instead of Font Book

I'll bet you have a font corruption problem.

1. Split the uninstalled fonts into two groups.
2. Import the first group.
3. Check to see if they imported successfully.
   • If yes, you know the problem is in the second group, so go to step #1.
   • If no, the second group might be okay, so try importing that.

And so on.

You should be able to narrow down the problem without having to import each font one at a time. But my guess is that one or more of your fonts is corrupted.

If you want to get anal about fonts you may find this PDF useful. It is by Extensis, the guys that make things like Suitcase Fusion and Universal Type Server/Client.

It is full of handy advice from a general viewpoint (i.e. not 'buy our product') and probably more information than you really want or need.

I'm not sure if it has been updated for Lion yet so tread carefully if you carry out any system font management on the basis of something in the PDF. I haven't used Lion enough yet to know how differently it handles fonts to 10.6 so will probably struggle to help if something goes wrong!