InDesign CS4 quotation marks problems in epub

I use InDesign CS4 to create epub files.  Occassionally I will have what I guess you would call a translation error from the InDesign file to the epub file.  Quotation marks and apostrophe marks do not translate at all.  It doesn't happen with every file.  If I combine the bad export file with another file the quotation marks will be just fine.  I have even tried inserting a special character from the Type menu and it does the same thing.
Example:
How it shows in the InDesign file -
You’re a fool, Grey.
"Miss Steele. What a pleasant surprise."
How it shows up in the epub file:
You’re a fool, Grey.
“Miss Steele. What a pleasant surprise.”
Does anyone have any suggestions to keep this from happening?

My suggestion is to upgrade to CS5.5. The epub capabilities are light years ahead of CS4.
That said, where are you seeing the problem? ADE? iPad? Kindle?
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