I'm not quite sure if this has been posted yet, as I stopped reading at about page 13.
Unitil I discovered this this thread, I downloaded most of the fonts I use from http://www.homemusician.net/
They've got a nice collection, most of it is fairly good, but there's a few you'll want to stay away from.
I noticed somewhere earlier in the thread mentioning the Joshua Melodic Trumpet. It's based off of a very high quality Trumpet soundfont called Trumpet3, which I personally think has more character. It really depends on what you wish to use it for.
I've provided some links to some of my most commonly used fonts
http://soundfonts.darkesword.com < not a ton of fonts, but 90% are very high quality, especially the saxes and squidfont.
The incredably realistic Trumpet3:
http://www.homemusician.net/soundfontdl.php?keywords=trumpet&soundfont_category_id=8&listOrder=&listDir=&SoundfontListPage=2&soundfont_id=553
A very nice Oboe (I believe this is the one I use):
http://www.homemusician.net/soundfontdl.php?keywords=oboe&soundfont_category_id=9&listOrder=&listDir=&soundfont_id=562