On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:58:31 -0700 (PDT), Fellow wrote:

Ron, read my post... I'm selecting the default dollar symbol.

I did. There are several ways of selecting the Accounting method and it was
not clear from your post whether you were using the one I described.

What version of Excel?
What country are you in?

Please do the following.

1. Select an affected cell (showing $b)
2. Right click on the cell
Format cells
Number
Custom

Select the contents of the Type: box and paste the results here.

Also, go to

Start/Control Panel/Regional and Language Options
Regional Options tab
What Language (country) shows?
Copy the contents of the currency box and paste the results
here.
--ron