flash (macromedia): Wondering if someone can through some light on this..

Im using a Flash Built Web-Site Updater using PHP calling .txt files, it all
works beautifuly but some characters in the updated text file and hence on the
web, appear incorrectly.

Problem #1 : The apostrophe character " ' " displays as a backslash " \ "
Problem #2: The ampersand " & " character stops any text immediately after it.

Note: If i edit the text file directly then save and ftp it, the text
characters display correctly. If i use the php function the resulting textfile
and the website has the incorrect characters in it..
Ive tried publishing in Mx 2004, tried embedding extra characters and tried
changing the .txt files to "save As" uni-code, UTF-8 and ANSI..nothing seems to
fix the problem.

Any help would be greaty appreciated,

Regards
Thomas.

well, i dont know about the first one, but if youre loading text into flash,
the & symbol is used to separate variables. So, any text will be cut off after
the & because its being loaded into a "variable" (which is the first word after
the &).

Thanks Jamie,

Well that solves my second problem...

Cheers,