Ah-ha! I solved the e-acute problem! I had used an accented e from my chat program (XChat2 for Windoze), and that was what was strange. I took a letter from OpenOffice for that and now it's correct.
And I just solved the '8' character problem. I looked all over in my OpenOffice characters, and in the Windoze Character Map, and they weren't there. But I copied them from your email, and used that -- they're working fine now.
Thanks so much!
Now I just have to figure out how to make voices come and go in the accompaniment ...