gtk and truetype fonts

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for whatever reason, certain truetype fonts (ms fonts and bitstream vera fonts) aren't displayed bold in gtk1 or gtk2 apps. bold italics however, seems to work fine.

i've seen other similar posts on this forum but those people only had problems with gtk1. also, none of the posted solutions seemed to worked for me. i've upgraded xfree, freetype and fontconfig. i've also re-emerged the gtks. nothing, however, has seemed to work. any ideas?