In reply to Font name menu order in Adobe apps:
Fascinating. I get this exact same result on Windows, InDesign CS4, with a freshly created font.
Nothing unusual in the name tables either -- this is my default naming scheme:
Macintosh Roman (English) Font family : (1) "New Cuisine"
Macintosh Roman (English) Subfamily : (2) "Regular"
Macintosh Roman (English) Full name : (4) "New Cuisine"
Macintosh Roman (English) PostScript name : (6) "NewCuisine-Regular"
I also tried it as a Preferred Family name, but that didn't work either!
I'll have to take a closer look at this. InDesign has a habit of ignoring 'font name prefixes' (and a nasty habit it is, as I feel it's actually inconvenient for browsing through your font list), but so far that only seemed to include foundry names such as Adobe, ITC, and Linotype. There isn't a foundry called "New", is there?