fontinst 1.801 -- still worse

["Walter Schmidt" <walter.schmidt@arcormail.de>]

Now I am totally puzzled about fontinst:
I get totally different tfm's for the 8r encoding when

1) executing the \latinfamily command

or

2) creating manually the metrics for the 8r encoding 
only, e.g.

\installfonts
\transformfont{phvr8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{phvr8a}}}
\endinstallfonts

Am I just too stupid?

Thank you in advance for any help

Walter