Safari not honoring text encoding settings

I'm trying to track down a problem I'm having with Safari Version 2.0.3 (417.9.2) and text encoding. Unfortunately I believe it had something to do with SafariStand, and I somehow can't fully remove it. I have removed SafariStand, SIMBL, and trashed Safari's plist to no avail.
The problem is no matter what text encoding I select from Preferences | Appearance, it will not change the way text is displayed in certain pages. If I change the encoding from View | Text Encoding the encoding will change and the page will be displayed correctly. I've reset Safari via the menu option, trashed its plist and rebooted, and nothing works. Is there a preference file I am missing?

The problem is no matter what text encoding I select
from Preferences | Appearance, it will not change the
way text is displayed in certain pages.
That is the way it is supposed to work. This setting only takes effect when the page being viewed itself has no encoding stipulated in its html.
If I change
the encoding from View | Text Encoding the encoding
will change and the page will be displayed correctly.
That is the correct and only way to change the display of a page which has an encoding already stipulated in its html.

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