Garbage characters appearing in CHM Index pane

Help! I have a CHM that has garbage characters appearing in
the Index pane. It is only when accessing the 'p' section of the
index. Here is a link to the screenshot so you can see what I mean:
Garbage
characters in Index pane of CHM screenshot
I don't know why this is suddenly appearing.
I am using RoboHelp 6 on Windows XP Pro.
Any suggestions on how I can fix this? Do I need to recompile
the index? If so, how do I do that?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg Davis
Senior Technical Writer
Consona ERP

Dirk,
Thanks for taking the time to help me. Here are the answers
to your questions.
Q: Do the index links work in these cases?
A: Yes the links work fine.
Q: What does the topic titles look like in these files?
A: The titles look normal. Is there something I should be
looking for?
Q: What do the properties of these entries look like?
A: What specific properties do you mean?
Q: Is this one help system or do you merge?
A: This is one single help file, no merged projects.
Q: Is there any translation involved at any point?
A: No
Q: Open the project's HHK-file with Notepad and look at the
first lines. Is there any codepage statement?
A: No. Here are the first few lines:
<html>

<object type="text/site properties">
<param name="SiteType" value="index">
</object>
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Greg

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