Displaying "gibberish" on finished iWeb site

I currently have a test site up, which was created in iWeb08, at www.heartofredemption.info. I was publishing this site to my .mac account but since I wanted more room and some other options I have picked up a host. Because I am still using iWeb08, I had to "publish to a folder" and then upload the files with my FTP program fetch to my current server. When I was done, it all appeared fine EXCEPT for all these odd "question marks" and "diamond shapes" which you can see clearly if you follow the link I provided above.
I am assuming that these odd "gibberish" abnormalities are from various extra code that iWeb08 uses, but I have been unable to figure out exactly why they appear or how to get rid of them without re-editing the whole site (each page) by hand. Even stranger, some of these "gibberish" icons even show up inside of type that was done with the "html widget".
It appears that mostly these oddities appear where I use things like commas, hyphens, colons such as ":.,:;" etc. Does anyone know why these are appear sometimes and not other times?
My only thought was that perhaps its a font issue, but then how come some of my colons, hyphens, and commas appear but elsewhere they are displayed as gibberish?
Will upgrading to iWeb09 fix this?
Thanks for your time and attention.

Your ftp settings are off. Are you perhaps using the old Fetch 4? Try using the free, modern Cyberduck instead. See the part of this note devoted to ftp settings:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebchars.html

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