Text Is Fine On One Box, On Another It's Not

[dbailey7]

On one of my computers, the cout statement's plain text output is fine, but on a second computer the text contains weird looking characters at the beginning of some of the lines. First, here's the cout statement:

cout << "\n\nAnimal   Move Type:    Position Change" << endl 
	<< "------   ----------    ---------------" << endl
	<< "Tortoise \"Fast Plod\":  ahead 3 squares." << endl
	<< "Tortoise \"Slip\":       back 6 squares." << endl
	<< "Tortoise \"Slow Plod\":  ahead 1 square." << endl
	<< "Hare     \"Sleep\":      no change." << endl
	<< "Hare     \"Big Hop\":    ahead 9 squares." << endl
	<< "Hare     \"Big Slip\":   back 12 squares." << endl
	<< "Hare     \"Small Hop\":  ahead 1 square." << endl
	<< "Hare     \"Small Slip\": back 2 squares.\n" << endl;

Then, the okay-looking text ...

Animal   Move Type:    Position Change
------   ----------    ---------------
Tortoise "Fast Plod":  ahead 3 squares.
Tortoise "Slip":       back 6 squares.
Tortoise "Slow Plod":  ahead 1 square.
Hare     "Sleep":      no change.
Hare     "Big Hop":    ahead 9 squares.
Hare     "Big Slip":   back 12 squares.
Hare     "Small Hop":  ahead 1 square.
Hare     "Small Slip": back 2 squares.

Lastly, the garbled-looking text ...

Animal   Move Type:    Position Change
ü------   ----------    ---------------
ëTortoise "Fast Plod":  ahead 3 squares.
¦Tortoise "Slip":       back 6 squares.
¦Tortoise "Slow Plod":  ahead 1 square.
íHare     "Sleep":      no change.
¬Hare     "Big Hop":    ahead 9 squares.
-Hare     "Big Slip":   back 12 squares.
+Hare     "Small Hop":  ahead 1 square.
-Hare     "Small Slip": back 2 squares.

I'm running the same .exe with the same VS 2010 C++ cout statement in both cases. The only difference is that on one computer (that displays the output okay) it is a 64-bit Gateway desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate. And the other (with the funny looking output) it's a 32-bit Dell desktop, but also running Windows 7 Ultimate.

Anyway, anyone have any ideas?

P.S. If the problem was limited to a few garbled characters, I would not mind THAT so much, but in addition, the program terminates because extraneous characters are being sent to cin.