Small boxes appearing within text only in Internet Explorer 8 and older Options

[jphogan]

Any help is appreciated.

See my page here: http://iamsinc.com/blog/incomeriders

If you are looking at this page in IE8, there are small boxes in the text starting in the 2nd paragraph. Here's a screenshot for those without IE8 http://i.imgur.com/hWw4u.jpg I can't find anything that would be causing this.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of our site visitors are using IE8 or IE7, so I just can't ignore it. Any advice? Thanks!

[pandy]

Not only in IE. That usually happens when a character can't be displayed, often because of encoding mismatch, but it looks like you've entered some funky characters. The validator points them out.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%...ine&group=0

"Forbidden code point U+0003". That seems to be some kind of control character.
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/

I have no idea how you got it in there, but try to delete the space between the words where it occurs and enter a new space. With the keyboard.

[jphogan]

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I don't know how they got in there, but I'm guessing it happened when I copied and pasted from Illustrator. Re-typed it and that fixed it!

[pandy]

Copy-paste can do no end of harm of you copy from the wrong program.