Thanks for you suggestions Marco, but I still can't figure out how to get the "styles"/"emphasis" displayed in a '.org' file buffer.
As mentioned before, the variable "org-fontify-emphasized-text" is set to `t' (non-nil).
Documentation says this about that variable:
Non-nil means fontify *bold*, /italic/ and _underlined_ text.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks,
-Kenneth