Font inconsistency - clip+ to clip zip

[Tor]

I've had a Clip+ for a while and been pleased with it, but after some (brief) excursions into the pond it has become rather flaky.  I bought a Clip Zip to replace it, and it seems to be good.

However, I have a text file I've read on the Clip+, and copied it to the zip in one of the good moments.  For some reason the "smart" quotes display improperly on the zip, even after copying the font I was using on the plus to the zip (I get various accented characters with space after instead of the quote).  Any solutions other than changing the quotes to ascii quotes?

[Tor]

Edit:  I figured out the font - at least mostly.  It was an encoding issue; the default on my player is 8859-1, and it needed to be utf-8.  Still got spaces after the closing quotes, which looks a little ugly for apostrophes, but it's at least usable.

Any chance anyone knows enough about font on the different devices to explain this?  I find myself at a loss to even posit an explanation, even though I can observe the effect.  I did install V3.13 on both, and copied the file from one device to the other, and then the font after failing to find a font that rendered the file correctly, only to find the font that worked before no longer did.

The clip+ that seems bricked apparently works fine except (and a bit of a big except) for turning on until the battery has run down.  To be clear, all buttons work, and it seems to play just as well as I remember.  I can even turn it off with the power button but I cannot then turn it on until the battery has run down.  Anyone have ideas for a solution?

Edit: I should note that the inability to turn it on extends to not coming on even by inserting a power adapter, not just the power button.

Thanks,

Tor