Hello Matt,
make sure you got your cont-sys. updated.
If by that you mean simply installing the latest version, I'm pretty sure I did--since I ripped out all the context/ directories under /usr/share/texmf (which is where I had always installed ConTeXt before) and installed the latest package under /usr/local/share/texmf.
The cont-sys.tex is not installed by default. You have to copy cont-sys.ori or cont-sys.rme to cont-sys.tex.
But I'll double-check it. Do you happen to know the date of the correct version?
well, I use the one from tetex: /opt/tetex/20041128/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme except for: \usetypescript[adobekb] [\defaultencoding] \setupoutput[pdftex] \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4 in my cont-sys.tex.
Also have a look at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general (the tetex mailing list archive). I had font problems, too, although different ones.
Do you mean your exchange with Thomas Esser near the top of the list?
Right. I think it was named something like "tetex issues". Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net