Weird Tags in Story Editor Breaking HTML export

Some of my manuscript files will not export to html. After further exploration, we found that in story editor mode, there are weird arrow type characters around text (ie, superscript numbers or within references)  that seem to be the problem. Once the characters are removed, the html exports fine.
Any ideas as to why these random special characters/tags show up only in the story editor mode and where they come from?

Here is what I am seeing in story editor mode. These tags don't show up in the normal layout or preview mode.
http://stfm.org/indesigntags.png
Looking to determine what causes these. Could it be leftover Microsoft Word Formating?

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