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How to Get Improper Characters to stop Displaying in ASP .NET/HTML Cod

I am new to web development, and i am receiving an issue with a piece of code that is written in ASP .NET/HTML. (The code that generates the portion of the page that is causing invalid characters to be displayed is shown below. The portion of the page that is rendering the invalid characters can be seen in the attached image.) Could someone explain what is causing the invalid characters to appear in in front of the copy right sign and after the Rights sign? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    <div id="footerNavSeals">

        <script type="text/javascript" src="https://seal.verisign.com/getseal?host_name=www.somecompany.com&amp;size=S&amp;use_flash=NO&amp;use_transparent=NO&amp;lang=en"> </script>

        <a style="padding-right: 20px"></a>
        <br />
        <a href="http://www.verisign.com/ssl/ssl-information-center/" target="_blank" style="padding-right: 20px;
            padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 0px; font: bold 7px verdana,sans-serif;
            color: #000000; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none">ABOUT
            SSL CERTIFICATES </a>
    </div>
    <div class="clr">
    </div>
    <div id="footerNavBr1">
        <!--<img src="/a/global/shim.gif" width="1" height="13" alt="" border="0" />-->
    </div>
    <div id="footerNavCopy">
        <p class="contentFNavCopy">
omitted
</p>
        <p class="contentFNavCwrite">
            &#169; 2011<sup>&reg;</sup></p>
    </div>
    <div id="footerNavBtm">
        <!--<img src="/a/global/shim.gif" width="1" height="15" alt="" border="0" />-->
    </div>
</div>

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