Endash and curly quote HTML errors

I inherited a large knowledge base at my job that was using
RoboHelp x5. It hadn't been worked on for more than a year when I
started, so the first thing I did was upgrade to RoboHelp 7. (I am
a total Robohelp beginner; been learning on my own since starting
her in Jan. 08) The first time I generated an output and published
the knowledge base in 7, we began to discover the project is
riddled with <&endash;> and <&rdquor;> HTML
errors. RH x5 version read the endash and curly quotes fine and
displayed the characters.
What can I do now? Is there a global find and replace? What's
also weird is that the endash looks OK in the RoboHelp viewer. The
curly quote does show up wrong in the RH viewer as
<”r;>.
Any help or insight would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks for your response, Peter. Don't see the patch you
mention -- could you point me to it? I may not be able to use it
tho, b/c have made lots of edits and updates to our knowledge base
so I can't go back to the old R5 copy at this point.
If not, I will try the Helpware FAR. In looking at their
site, am not sure how it works: do I apply it to the output file or
the RH project files.
Thanks!

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