Cool, glad it worked!
Yeah, all those nasty markup tags get included :-).
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=227747 and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=240609
will point you toward a solution - sorry I haven't actually played with adapting them yet for this specific purpose (since this happens on my forum as well).