The links you have posted are from the search engine friendly version of the site. You shouldn't really be using that for the code but grabbing the stuff from the .org site.
Could you indicate whether your problem is on this actual site?
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ok using the proper site doesnt give me any problems. its just the search engine format that includes the shy ASCII codes.
thanks for all your help everyone!
duncan