@kimberly this currency symbol issue has been tagged as a defect (S3) in 2015 Aug, I discovered this defect while working on a multi currency consolidated invoice solution, one day suddenly currency symbols stopped working, because NS updated Freemarker version and didn't reference it in NS's code base accoringly so currency symbols went out of whack. Even though they classified this as a defect since it is S3 they never fixed it. I did came up with alternate solution by using freemarker's locale function which defines the currency symbol and numbering format and it worked great. Don't remember the code exactly but I did posted it in official user group - do a search in the user group.