Font Trouble Summary.Txt

Hello all. A week or so ago I had a problem with trashing some fonts that were in my fonts folder. I posted the question here, and got several prompt replies. Also I got a request to post the replies I got, and how I solved the problem. I had planned to post them last week, but the pc I was on at the time crashed and I lost the file (just like a pc). So there it is: I had come time to clean out my system folder, and wanted to thin out the herd of fonts that I had. In doing so, there were 4 TT fonts that I couldn't trash. I tried to do the usual drag to the trash, but I got the 'not enough memory' reply. Having plenty of mem left, I was in the finder, I knew that I had the damaged font problem. 1.) The first thing that came to mind was that fonts were like mini applications, that were running in the background (I know that this