How can I prevent this arbitrary text truncation in AS3 - arrays

Question

Below is code that populates a menu. Everything seems to work great, with no errors thrown, except for one crucial part. My megaPages array has the values ["HOME","BABIES","BRIDALS","MISC","WEDDINGS","ABOUT"], but the actual text that displays on screen (which is produced by megaPages) is like this:
As you can see, some of the text is arbitrarily being truncated. I've traced the text strings as they get passed through the various functions at various stages of the menu-build, and they are always right, but somehow when each DisplayObject make it on screen, letters get ommitted (notice though that 'HOME' abd 'ABOUT' are fine). I don't even know where to start with this problem.
function buildMenu() {
var itemMCs = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < megaPages.length; i++) {
megaPages[i] = megaPages[i].toUpperCase();
trace(megaPages[i]); // at each iteration, traces as follows "HOME","BABIES","BRIDALS","MISC","WEDDINGS","ABOUT"
var textMC = createText(megaPages[i]);
var itemMC = new MovieClip();
if (i!=0) {
var newLink = new PlateLink();
newLink.y = 0;
itemMC.addChild(newLink);
}
var newPlate = new Plate();
if (i==0) {
newPlate.y = 0;
} else {
newPlate.y = newLink.height - 2;
}
newPlate.x = 0;
newPlate.width = textMC.width + (plateMargin*2);
itemMC.addChild(newPlate);
if (i!=0) {
newLink.x = (newPlate.width/2) - (newLink.width/2);
}
textMC.x = plateMargin;
textMC.y = newPlate.y + .5;
itemMC.addChild(textMC);
itemMCs.push(itemMC);
itemMC.x = (homeplateref.x + (homeplateref.width/2)) - (itemMC.width/2);
if (i==0) {
itemMC.y = homeplateref.y;
} else {
itemMC.y = itemMCs[i-1].y + (itemMCs[i-1].height - 6);
}
menuRef.addChild(itemMC);
}
}
function createText(menuTitle) {
trace(menuTitle);
var textContainer : MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var myFont = new Font1();
var backText = instantText(menuTitle, 0x000000);
backText.x = 1;
backText.y = 1;
var frontText = instantText(menuTitle, 0xFFFFFF);
frontText.x = 0;
frontText.y = 0;
textContainer.addChild(backText);
textContainer.addChild(frontText);
return textContainer;
}
function instantText(textContent, color) {
trace(textContent); // again, traces the right text each time it is fired
var myFont = new Font1();
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.size = 18;
myFormat.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
myFormat.font = myFont.fontName;
var myText:TextField = new TextField();
myText.defaultTextFormat = myFormat;
myText.embedFonts = true;
myText.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
myText.text = textContent;
myText.textColor = color;
myText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
trace(myText.text);
return myText;
}

Answer 1

You need to embed all the necessary characters for the font you're using.
For textfields created in Flash:
Select the TextField, and hit the 'Embed' button in the properties panel.
For dynamically created textfields:
When you set the font to export (Font1 in your case) make sure to include all the characters you need.
You can choose to embed all uppercase characters, or just type in the ones you need for those specific menu items.