That's probably a very Microsoft-specific font or something. I just tried viewing it in Netscape 7.02 on Windows, and it looks fine, but on Mozilla 1.01 on my Linux box, I see the very same "w" bullets. Hmm...

On my Linux machine in Mozilla Firebird 0.6 it looks fine. I see the bullets, not the "w." I'd say It's a matter of having the font.
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