Hebrew Type1 font problem

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there might be some font experts around.
For Hebrew (working in Suse Linux 9.1), I downloaded a couple of free to use fonts via http://culmus.sourceforge.net/
That's all legal and permitted etc, and it worked for a few weeks, but suddenly the fonts didn't come out anymore in OpenOffice. I'm not sure if this is a pure "m17n" question but please don't throw me out yet ;-)

I installed the fonts (which are PostScript Type1 fonts) in the 

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1

directory.
First I just put the file, which was a tar.gz file, there as 

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/culmus-0.101.tar.gz

This worked for a while. So I guess when importing the fonts, those files were automatically "unzipped"?
Later I installed a few Arabic Truetype fonts in the same way (except in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype of ocurse, but that didn't work. Apparently these were not unzipped ("de-compressed") automatically?
So I took the compressed files out, by saving them somewhere else, and installed them all manually. Now that (still) works. The Arabic fonts all look perfect (but they're truetype).
I configured all the fonts as active, but I can't find anywhere in any OpenOffice FAQ or such, what I did wrong. Can free fonts just "expire"? Even if they're designed for free use?

Then I also have some directory called

/usr/share/fonts/he/Type1

Here, "/he/" must stand for Hebrew.
There, those fonts are also stored, I guess uncompressed. I didn't make that directory, I don't know who did ;-) Does that have anything to do with it? (Hebrew is the main Complex-Text-Layout (CTL) enabled language for OOo on my system.)

I didn't want to bother you, but I thought the problem is interesting, anyway I'm getting to understand less of how fonts work everyday.
Thanks and regards,
Herman

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