Hi Graff,
   Your right. All browsers we defaulting to UTF-8 even though the page had a meta tag for ISO-8859-1. When I compaired the apache httpd.conf files for RH9 and Fedora I saw that fedor defaulted to UTF-8 while RH9 went for the standard ISO-8859-1. I updated the apache config and restarted and all is now fine. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
changed to
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

Lyle