Using: Win2K +SP4 + Rollup

Hi Experts :-)

Up to now I thought that HTML files were simple things and now I have a
huge surprise - an HTML file that has become corrupt and the data appear
to be missing. When I open it with Firefox, I get lines like the
following from top to bottom of the page:

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`Ã*ÖéÈÂ*EÊÛ«º„…¬!£\DyÂ�媷վI

I had a message from TBird, when I pasted this string in, that it should
be sent in UTF-8, or the characters would be replaced by ?????, etc. It
looks just like what is in the file I opened in Firefox.

The file has subfiles: eight GIFs, four .css, and one .js. The css files
appear to be layouts for the page e.g.

> #footnote ol li {margin-bottom:1em;}
> #footnote {font-size:90%;margin-top:5px}
> /* Note1: the margin-left is to fudge that we are centering over the
> footer which goes the width of the window, and not the width of the
> body content
etc.

and

> /* Data table visuals */
> table.datatable thead {text-align: center; display: table-header-group; }
> table.datatable tfoot { font-weight: bold; }
etc.

and

> /*
************************************************** ****************************
> vudu.css: Part of the VuDu kit shared between WIB and Affiliates
>
> NOTE: This is a VuDu2a style sheet, font-sizes are based on
STANDARDS MODE
> rendering, and NOT QUIRKS MODE!
>
> These styles are SHARED by several platforms. WIB specific
styles are in:
> wibscreen.css and wibprint.css.
> !!! Do not modify without good reason !!!
>
************************************************** ****************************
*/
>
> /* General styles---------------------------------------------*/>
body {color:#000;background-color:#FFF;margin:4px;font-style:normal;
font-size:75%}
> * {font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}
> a, a:link, a:visited {color:#369}
> a:hover {color:#4986FF}
> a[name] {color:#000;} /* Mozilla overly acquisitive on the anchor tag */
> img
etc.

There is a .js file with:

> //
>
> //
etc.

In case there was some mixup, I tried to open the file with IrfanView
but it did not recognize it as an image file.

Any thoughts about how to fix this file or where to find the data in the
file or in its bits?

TIA

RF