Hi Michael,
Have you copied ALL the Fonts (X, Type1, AMF, PCF, etc..)?
Here a user had a similar problem on a SUN server and the following steps solved his problem:

1- Copy all Mathematica Fonts (X, Type1, AMF, PCF, etc..) to the local machine (HP, SUN, Linux).
For example on a local SUN machine, copy/keep the Fonts in /opt/software/Math-Fonts 
2- Use a DISPLAY command (i.e. DISPLAY=the local machine name..then...export DISPLAY)
3- On the local machine type:

/usr/openwin/bin/xset fpt /opt/software/Math-Fonts/X
(use the same command for other Fonts, Type1, AMF, and PCF,etc..).

The above steps/commands will give you all the Fonts including the palette.

I hope this will help.

Regards
Zaiem
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>Behalf Of Michael Hannon
>Sent: 02 May 2007 22:15
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Problem (missing palette) with remote execution of 
>Mathematica in SL 4.4
>
>Greetings.  As the subject says, I've encountered a problem 
>using Mathematica on a system running Scientific Linux 4.4.  I 
>can't tell if the problem relates to X-windows (xorg vs. 
>XFRee86), or to changes in Mathematica, or ...  Hence, this 
>may be wildly off-topic, and, if so, I apologize.
>
>The issue has to do with executing Mathematica on a remote 
>system and getting the display on a local system via 
>X-windows.  Mathematica uses its own fonts for its GUI.  If 
>those fonts are missing, the front-end
>(GUI) is, for practical purposes, not usable.
>
>We have Mathematica available on a bunch of SL 4.x boxes in 
>our classroom.  I'd like to be able to connect via ssh to one 
>of the classroom systems from my office, run Mathematica on 
>the classroom system, and display the results on a SL 4.4 
>system in my office.
>
>We're currently using SL 4.4 on our classroom systems and the 
>system in my office.  The version of Mathematica is 5.2.
>
>In the not-too-distant past I've been able to do this 
>combination of remote execution/local display by using the 
>cheap, but, if I understand correctly, entirely legal trick of 
>installing the Mathematica fonts, and no other part of 
>Mathematica, on my local computer in exactly the same location 
>in which the fonts are located on the remote system.
>
>I.e., if I do:
>
>   local#  mkdir -p 
>/usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.2/SystemFiles/Fonts
>
>then put all the Mathematica fonts in that local directory, 
>then I have been able to do:
>
>   local$ ssh -X remote
>
>   remote$ Mathematica &
>
>and have the full Mathematica front-end appear on local.
>
>Note that this worked without my having to modify any 
>X-windows configuration at all!  No "mkfontdir", no "xset 
>fp+", etc., etc.
>
>Now what happens is that I get the input window, but I don't 
>get the associated "palette", which contains all the integral 
>signs, square-root signs, etc.  At some level Mathematica DOES 
>seem to be finding the fonts, because if I take a 
>quasi-command-line approach and start typing things into the 
>input window, the function names are in bold, the brackets and 
>parentheses are automatically highlighted and matched, and if 
>I type something like:
>
>     Integrate[Sin[x^2], x]
>
>I get legibly-formatted output with Pi's and square-root signs 
>looking more or less the way they look in math books.
>
>If you know where the palette went, or if you have any other 
>words of wisdom about this, please let me know.  Thanks.
>
>					- Mike
>
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>Michael Hannon            mailto:[log in to unmask]
>Dept. of Physics          530.752.4966
>University of California  530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677
>
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