In CS5.5, I'm trying to create a paragraph style with 'numbering' which consists of a superscript letter.

When I tell the numbering preferences to apply the appropriate character style (with superscript applied) to the numbering, the characters appear the correct size for superscript but sit on the baseline. Any idea what's going on? 

I'm doing this because I have footnotes which are referenced using a superscript letter, and my client wants the footnotes themselves to be marked with the letter in superscript as well. The footnote options don't allow any formatting of the footnote marker in the footnote, so I thought I could fake it using a numbered list. But this problem with superscript seems to be putting a stop to that.

Am I going to have to number my footnotes manually? I'd really rather not.