Weird fonts problem in X

My problem has just got massively weird after installing more programs. I get messages that seem to indicate some fonts are missing, but I can't figure out how to fix it. If anyone has a clue please tell me! Here's what Netscape says when it tries to run: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvet

Weird fonts problem in X

I just reinstalled my debian 2 system and now I'm finding that I get error messages whenever I start netscape or gimp or xview-textedit etc. Here's what Netscape says: Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string