font installation in Windows 2000

[LMS journals]

Dear All

I've been watching the recent comments on font installation, having at last
had a chance to come back to "housekeeping" (as distinct from
"firefighting"...), and also now trying to use JUST the 2K machine, and not
my steam-driven '95.

Last week I needed MSAM8 and MSAM9, also MSBM5, MSBM8 and MSBM9 for a paper.
I have fetched the PFM and PFB files, and installed the fonts using the
"Control panel" route (i.e., not just drag-and drop).  The "installing
fonts" progress bar worked fine.
I have also put TFM files for the fonts in the directory where my other AMS
fonts TFM files are (c:\yandy\fonts\tfm\nontext\tfm-ams). They have the same
date-stamp as the TFMs for my existing AMS fonts (including other sizes of
the same fonts). I couldn't, however, find any AFM files for the new font
sizes on the CTAN site.

The new fonts now show up in c:\winnt\fonts, with all the rest (only
difference is that their names are in lower-case; the fonts that are "happy"
are in upper-case; I tried renaming them in case something was
case-specific, but wasn't allowed to do it by Windows).
I have got "Ignorebadinstall=1" in my .ini file.
I have run "setupttf".

The new fonts do NOT show up on the list of fonts in dviwindo, so I can't
use  "Write AFM". I get a Courier substitute on-screen in DVIWindo, and
constant "pings" if I switch on "Complain missing fonts". BUT they print out
fine!!!  I get a warning message "no ATMREG.ATM" (which I always get, and
was told at some point earlier not to worry about because of having 2K --
see below), and an error message for each of the new fonts: "expecting
number not `dup'". Nevertheless, the printing goes through.

Which is a relief when it comes to sending author proofs and pubishing the
papers, but a massive bind for editing/proofreading...

I don't have any sort of version of ATM -- my understanding was that it is
not needed for 2K.

The difference from the successful installation of xypic a couple of months
ago seems to be the AFM files, which I managed to find in that case -- or is
there something else I'm missing here???

??????????

All the best

Sue