I have a problem when I export text, and especially footnotes, from word (2003) to pdf.
You can see the problem in these screenshots (taken from the exported pdf):

http://users.auth.gr/gtrianta/images/problem1.png
http://users.auth.gr/gtrianta/images/problem2.png

The problem is these tag-like characters that appear with the footnote reference in the text and also the footnote number at the bottom of the page. I guess there are some sort of tags that word uses to make the footnote reference a link to the actual footnote when you read the text in word. Is there a way to avoid having these marks printed when you export the text in pdf?

Another problem (again with the footnotes) is shown in the following screenshot:

http://users.auth.gr/gtrianta/images/problem3.png

The problem here is that when exporting the text in pdf, a number is added before the footnote separator as if it is a "Heading 1" styled text. The same number appears before every footnote separator.

Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks you in advance.