I have no clue how you came up with that answer, but it WORKED! @.@In fact, just plain removing fonts-liberation allowed it to work.. I'm not entirely sure which package pulled it in.. (Emacs? Xmonad? Awesome? Stumpwm? Warmux? Rxvt-Unicode?) As far as whether or not my disk is dying.. I sincerely hope not O-O it's an SSD (granted it's gone through a decent amount of full re-installations of OSs...)
Anywayz, I can finally set this as solved! Thank you good sir!!
