Hi William.
Some of the Telerik skins add the dots. Simple is one. css conflicts, searched for the 3 year old post could not find the css sector change needed so.....
We have Simple skins, Vista skins and Hay Skins with some custom skins in the Ribbon Bar, No consistency and css conflicts so to fix it all do the below.
Add this to the keys section of web config.
<
add key="Telerik.Skin" value="Telerik" />
or which ever skin best matches. Then add reference to Telerik UI for all Telerik controls on the site. Not a reference to Telerik UI in the default page, take it out, add the below to the controls section.
<controls>
<add tagPrefix="telerik" namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" />
<add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
</controls>
then add the below to your index skin "or all skins, at top. Or in the default page for all of the site in the head
<telerik:RadFormDecorator ID="RadFormDecorator1" runat="server" Skin="Telerik" DecoratedControls="All" />
<telerik:RadToolTipManager ID="RadToolTipManager1" runat="server"
Skin="Telerik" RelativeTo="Element" EnableShadow="True" Animation="Fade"
AutoTooltipify="True">
</telerik:RadToolTipManager>