You will have to edit the Lang10**.asp file you are using. Probably Lang1033.asp. Here are all textstrings started with an *. Just delete these ones. This is probably done for debugging purpose.
Go here and download the latest patches for version 4.0. As a bonus you will get a lang1033.asp free of '*'. Once you get the zip. just overwrite your current files with the ones in the zipped file.