CS4 Indesign: Invisible Characters...

Hi
I just updated my Suitcase Fusion 2 and I noticed my invisible characters are now a cross instead of a dot. Does anyone know if this is a preference checked that I can uncheck? Or does it have something to do with my current Suitcase Fusion 2?
It just is annoying to view. Should I reinstall Suitcase Fusion 2?
Thanks!

Indent to here maybe?
If not, indesignsecrets.com has a great (and free) guide of special characters in indesign. Site seems to be down right now but I guess adress is
http://indesignsecrets.com/free-guide-to-indesign-special-characters.php

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I have a problem that doesn’t go away, I am working happily in my InDesign document when suddenly all the invisible characters go crazy (see BEFORE), the only solution that I have found is to restart InDesign and the invisible characters go back to normal (see AFTER), have any of you encounter this problem before?
This happened in any document, being new, converted from an old version or re-open. I have deleted the preference of InDesign and it is still with me. I had snow leopard and it used to happened also, I went back to leopard (for other reasons) and it is still here. I am working with CS4 with the latest update (it happened from the start of CS4 6.0)
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BEFORE
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hi there
thank you for the advice, unfortunately the problem is still happening, I work with suitcase fusion 2 so this could be the problem.
I donwloaded the Onyx application and deleted the font cache and the problem was still happening so I tried this other method to delete the font cahe:
"To clear the current user’s font cache, first quit all running applications (otherwise, you may see font oddities after using the command), then open Terminal (in Applications -> Utilities) and run this command:
atsutil databases -removeUser
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sudo atsutil databases -remove
Once you’ve cleared the caches, you should stop and restart the ATS server with these commands:
$ atsutil server -shutdown
$ atsutil server -ping
It will take a second or two for the server to restart, but when it does, you should be good to go. If anything still looks odd, a logout and login should take care of any lingering issues."
the problem stopped for almost 2 weeks, I thought this was it but it started to happen again.
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Good Morning:
For training purposes, Is there a way to print the invisible characters in an InDesign document?
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Yes, Peter, you are correct. I need to be able to show examples of "good" and "less good" methods of typesetting. The screen capture works, but I was hoping to avoid taking all the screen shots. I would love to be able to print out a copy of the document with all of the invisible characters showing that I could demonstrate to our designers where the methods used could be improved. See example below:
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D [06/May/2011:08:32:19 -0700] [Job 66] STATE: +connecting-to-device
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