Unwanted characters appear

When my pages are published to a website (through another host), I have odd characters showing up where certain punctuation marks (like apostrophes, bullet points, quote marks) and commas should appear. What is happening? How can I fix it?
www.mysuccessfuldivorce.com

I have odd characters showing up where
certain punctuation marks (like apostrophes, bullet
points, quote marks) and commas should appear.
Your server is (mis)configured and forcing all browsers to use the wrong encoding. See this note for fixes:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebchars.html

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