OK, so I guess if you're getting some kind of symbol, then you're doing it exactly as you should be, therefore anything I told you above is irrelevant. It didn't occur to me to ask you if you were using a laptop. If you are than this link should help.

One more thing though, above in your example, you said that you got this from &#169. I'm confused on that, the '&#', that is. To get that symbol, it says to hold Alt & type 0169. Is that how you got your ?

I don't mean to be a pain, I just don't know what you mean by &#169. But anyway here's the link about Alt w/laptops.

http://alt-codes.org/laptop/ or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SPlCJ3rwME&feature=player_embedded