cursive (joined) fonts are suuuuuper hard to make - so they are well worth a small investment... also, please please remember that it takes hours (HOURS) to create a font... i know free is good, but if someone spent those hours creating... is really the same as walking out of a scrapbooking store with a page kit without having paid... man, i HATE sounding so preachy... but believe me, a font takes longer sometimes than a page kit to do well, and i feel badly when the person who spent that time doesn't get compensated.
that said, there are lots of legitimately free fonts available. a really good site is dafont.com, and there are even some free fonts available here... also, fonts happen to be on SALE here, too...