The new version of apache had the default character set as UTF-8. This apparently overrides whatever is in the webpages because Mel had a page that kept coming up with a bunch of odd characters. They would go away when the user changed the text encoding to Western iso-8859-1. So, I just changed the default text encoding in the httpd.conf file.
# Changed the default character encoding as somme pages were looking strange --MH 3 Jan 2007 AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1 #AddDefaultCharset UTF-8