footnote with star symbol

[Deane Harder]

Dear all,

I'm trying to have a star symbol (*) as a footnote symbol rather than 
numbers (because I use superscript numbers for literature citings). From 
an earlier posting I've learned that 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@textsuperscript{*}} in the preamble would do 
the trick. Which it does - as indicator in the main text. The footnote, 
however, still has a number '1' as symbol. I use the Mac version of Lyx 
and have tried it with 1.4.4 as well as 1.5 beta 3. What am I missing here?

Thanks

Deane Harder