HTML characters display incorrectly in Firefox

Special HTML characters like ∠ and ← and ∝ (etc.) do not display as they should in Firefox on my Mac.
I messed with Font Book earlier today, and though I don't think I made any fatal changes, I think that might have caused this problem (though certain symbols like ♥ had never shown up correctly).
However, all of these characters display perfectly in Safari. See:
http://www.plisher.org/safari.jpg
http://www.plisher.org/firefox.jpg
How might I fix this?

Well, I just launched Firefox and opened this page in it. The angle, arrow and whatevertheotherthing is all displayed correctly, the heart however showed up in Firefox as a perpendicular line.
I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4, with the default font set to Geneva.
Francine
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