Fonts will not embed

I am trying to embed a font in my actionsrcipt and the characters don't display at all when the embedFont = true. If it is set to false it displays the characters. I really need this to work because I want to maintain consistency with the font used through out the site. The problem is that its not a common device font. The TextField is set up in another class I created and the the text formating is applied when the for loop runs in the initialization of the class I'm working in. I've tried everything I can think of and it just will not embed the font and display it. I hope the following is enough code to diagnose. I thank you in advance for you help!

public function tabClass()

{

for (var i:int = 0; i < counter; i++) {

a = new navTabButton();

a.x=600;

a.y=nextY;

addChild(a);

nextY+=36;

a.outputText.text=String(i+1);

a.outputText.selectable=false;

myFormat.size = 25;

myFormat.font = "18 VAG Rounded Bold   07390";

a.outputText.embedFonts = true;

a.outputText.setTextFormat(myFormat);

a.alpha=.5;

movies.push(a);

a.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, cont1);

}

}