Garbled web pages

I've been using Dreamweaver 4 for years with no problem, maintaining 5 or 6 websites all on different servers. Now all of a sudden when I "put" a page and browse to it online, it comes out all garbled. Here are a couple of examples:
http://www.earlham.edu/~jeffesu/TRIM-CourseObjectives-test.htm
http://www.earlham.edu/~jeffesu/QB-FinalEssays.htm
I've tried "putting" several pages on this server, and a couple on another server; the problem seems like it must be in DW4's ftp setup somehow, or in Windows -- but how?? The pages look fine when I open in them in IExplorer or FireFox from my hard drive - and they look fine when I display them in DW's wsiwyg mode -- it's just when I've posted them and get to them via the internet that they're all garbagey. My other pages on the same server, that I haven't "put" in last day or two, all appear fine online.
I had several problems with my computer over the past couple of weeks, but they seem all resolved now, until this happened (browsing redirect virus; and I had to re-load my usb and PCMCIA drivers). I just used DW less than a week ago to post some web page revisions, and it worked fine. Since that success and the current failures, the only thing I can think of that's changed is that I had to re-load the software for my wireless PC card (Sprint Smartview) but the Sprint tech folks swear up and down that that can't be the problem. I don't have access to another internet connection.
I have no trouble at all making my webpages in DW, and ftp appears to be working just fine. The html or jpg or whatever transfers and appears in the list on the server side as expected, but when I type in its url (or click re-load if I already had the page up in a browser window) it's trash like the examples above.
I'm hoping there's just some simple setting I need to change.... maybe something to do with encryption? It sure looks like somehow my perfectly nice html is getting seriously shuffled on its way to the server. I'm running Windows XP Pro / Tablet Edition.
Help? Anyone? Thanks!!!

So I added this statement to the front of several of my test pages, and now they seem to display properly:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
I have no recollection of what the content of this DOCTYPE statement even means, but I found it at the front of some of my other pages, so figured it was at least a good starting point. I learned HTML in about 2002 or 3, and have never upgraded my skills in the least....!
At any rate, I wanted to take down the test pages from my previous post, but I thought I'd put up a little test page just to illustrate the issue. So I made this page:
http://www.earlham.edu/~jeffesu/TestPageShowingGarble.htm
It has no DOCTYPE declaration, and I thought it would display as garble but it's fine.
In fact, I can't even duplicate the problem any more. Here's a screen shot of one of the formerly defective pages, for illustration purposes:
http://www.earlham.edu/~jeffesu/GarbledWebPage.jpg
but now it seems like all the pages I post display just fine, with or without a DOCTYPE declaration.
I'm out of time this morning; will test more later today or tomorrow morning, Lord willing.
I'm going to leave the "no, my question has not been answered yet" checked, since I don't have time to test everything right now, but it sure looks like I'm on the road to recovery so to speak. Mystified, but getting better. Similar to the rest of my life, come to think of it :-)
Thanks so much for your help with this -- all o' y'all, who read and post and try to help -- I'd have long since had to abandon computing altogether, were it not for 24-7 user support forums like this one.

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