Sorry I was so slow, My husband took me to eat dinner tonight. Just got home.
IF the restart doesn't clean up the description the only thing to do is to edit the description.
It is really weird though. Just a thought. Have you recently updated your browser to IE8???
I ask because after updating my computers, 2 computers had totally weird things happen on being font. I ended up uninstalling the update and then reinstalling IE8 again. The second time everything was fine.