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> I'm assuming I should see a separate listing for AGaramond italic,

Why are you assuming that? Try formatting some text in AGaramond with 
Angle set to Regular. Now format some text next to it in AGaramond with 
Angle set to Italic. Are you getting true Adobe Garamond italic? (Hint: 
check a lower case a or f--the letterforms are completely different.)

Here's how my Adobe Garamond family breaks down:

AGaramond-Regular (gdrg____.pfm, .pfb)
AGaramond-Italic (gdi_____.pfm, .pfb)
AGaramond-Semibold (gdsb____.pfm, .pfb)
AGaramond-SemiboldItalic (gdsbi___.pfm, .pfb)

These four show in Frame as one family: "AGaramond". To get ital, bold, 
and bold ital, you have to change angle and weight.

AGaramond-Bold (gdb_____.pfm, .pfb)
AGaramond-BoldItalic (gdbi____.pfm, .pfb)

These two show in Frame as one family: "AGaramond Bold". To get bold, 
you have to change weight.

In addition to those six weights (in two families), I also have 13 more 
AGaramond expert fonts that would show up in (I think) seven families. I 
don't have them installed right now. The important point is that in 
Frame's list of fonts you should be seeing a list of font *families*, 
not individual variants. You could very easily have 21 fonts showing in 
eight families.

This naming system does not always seem logical. Often they're offset: 
Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic in the first family and Demibold 
and Demibold Italic in the second family. Futura, for instance, has (at 
least) 12 fonts in 4 families: The Futura family has Book, Book Oblique, 
Bold, Bold Oblique. The FuturaMedium family contains Regular, Oblique, 
Heavy, and Heavy Oblique. And there's a Futura Light family (Light and 
Light Oblique) and a Futura Extrabold (ExtraBold and ExtraBold Oblique). 
Adobe Indesign is much better at listing all 12 fonts, in the proper 
order, in one family. But most other DTP apps (on Windows) organize 
fonts the same crazy way Frame does.

> How many fonts is "too many?" Somehow over the years I've collected
> 1000+ files in the fonts folder.

In Windows 98 and earlier, it was important to minimize the number of 
fonts loaded (and printers installed) because the name and path of each 
font went into win.ini, and the OS would only load the first 64 kb of 
win.ini. Install too many fonts (or too many printers, because each one 
had its own list of fonts) and win.ini would exceed 64 kb and fonts 
would just start dropping off the list.

Beginning with Windows 2000, this was no longer an issue. I have well 
over a thousand fonts loaded here, although I periodically weed out the 
ones I'm not using just to keep the list manageable.

-- 
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com