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Henri:

Bet you'll never guess what!  I fixed my own problem.

Basically, I followed the instructions in the Microsoft Bulletin 283807 you referenced above
to change the code table specified in my registry EXCEPT.... Instead of specifying the 
c_28591.nls as the default, I changed the default to c_1252.nls. Note that I am using 
IE6.0 and Windows XP Pro.

c_1252 is the code table for Western European (Windows)
c_28591 is the code table for Western European (ISO)

Since the problem goes away temporarily by changing the view encoding to the (Windows) 
version not the (ISO) version, I reasoned that c_1252 might just work.  

After rebooting, the problem was history.

Also, its not really obvious from the Microsoft bulletin that the registry line that needs to 
be changed is the first line in that section of the registry. In this case, this is the 
default code that will be used. This said, it beats the heck out of me as to why the 
registry default setting should "over-ride" the setting specified in the web page itself!
Oh well, it worked.

So, it turns out the problem was simple after all. Sure glad I didn't resort to reloading windows!

You'll probably want to add a reference to this discovery on your web site, but don't forget 
to tell folks to back up their registry (Or do a System Restore Save Point), and then to 
reboot after making the change.

John Mann

Follow up:

Don't forget that the code file for Western European (Windows) for Windows 98 and 
Windows ME is "cp_1252.nls" instead of the equivalent file "c_1252.nls" that I used for 
NT 2K and XP. 

For what its worth, my other two computers (Windows ME and Windows 2K) have no default 
specified at the beginning of the registry code table section but yet, they both work fine.
To me, that means that there is something else wrong with my XP system. None-the-less, the 
change I made does appear to be working fine. I have had no further problems.

Good Luck,
Source: John Mann