Well, finally solved this issue after months of living with it. I googled and found a site with useful hints to repair fonts in windows. I applied approach#3 in the link below:
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-to-fix-win...font-problems.html
Now all the locations mentioned in my post display normal fonts. Here is a screenshot of the Services description window after the repair:
![[Image: 4f44f4sr4.jpg]](http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6376/4f44f4sr4.jpg)
