Special Character - Issue with Forms

[eluser]bnewton[/eluser]
I have an textarea with a form for user text - however when Special Characters are used like "&" is used in the text - I lose all of the text after the "&" . I'm not really sure when is causing this. I have tested with global_xss_filtering off and on with no change to the issue. I also have the field quoted and all the db update and insets. Does anyone have any suggestion or ideas on this issue?

bnewton