I often see the wrong font come up while using Netscape 3.01 to draw text to a window utilizing Graphics drawString. Why?

This is a known bug in Netscape's Java implementation on Win32.

You can get around it by not having multiple "graphics" objects in use at the same time. That is, you are probably creating an image, getting the graphics, drawing the text, and then copying the image into the canvas (or panel), while in the paint mode. Try disposing the paint method's graphics object before getting the graphics object for the image, and then draw the text on the image, dispose the graphics object for the image, and call "getGraphics" to paint the image to the canvas.