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[Rebecca J. Walter]

> Someone has written a program called demoroniser which removes these,
> luckily. I imagine there is a way to turn smart quotes off in Word
> and whatever other applications use them so that your quotation
> marks remain ASCII and are displayable (is that a word?) in non-MS
> programs. I wish some news sites would figure this out :) 

The evil things can be turned off in MS Word under the automatic
replacement function.  There is a check box for replacing quotes with
smart quotes.

whee! my guess about the problem was actually right! yay!