Okay... if you visit:

http://www.big-brothertv.com/big-brother-u...lden_tickey.php

You'll see what my problem is. The apostrophes and quotes are replaced with strange characters. This article was first written in open office then pasted into MT with the FCK editor. The template is created from scratch with dream weaver and pasted from DW into MT.

I had a friend look at it and he indicated it is a problem with the BOM of the html document. He claims he was able to get it to display properly by editing in the proper bom with a hex editor. This is all greek to me, I am assuming the problem is in fact from pasting in from open office. Any thoughts on this anybody? A resolution would be awesome.

The "strange characters" are showing up because they have been entered as UTF-8 characters, but your page indicates that it uses ISO-8859-1 encoding. If you tell your browser to display that page with UTF-8 encoding, those characters then appear normal.

What you'd need to do is copy the text of that entry into a text editor, convert the text from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, repaste the converted text back into MT, and re-save the entry.

I'm not familiar with FCK. I use a text editor called EditPad, and it can convert the text by clicking "Convert", "Unicode", "UTF-8 => ANSI" on its menu. You'd need to do a similar operation with whatever text editor you have that can do this kind of conversion.