This page merely serves as introduction to a page that originated at http://www.columbiaboatalarms.com/contact.htm which had a problem at the time when this question was asked: little squares on odd places in IE8. These appeared to be replacement chars for characters not known by IE8.
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The original page (a copy, links won't work): contact_original.html
The corrected page with UTF-8: contact_corrected.html
The corrected page CP1252: contact_corrected-2nd.html