Hi,
I was just poking around in ZC v1.5RC2 and when I try to change the Bread Crumbs Navigation Separator value the ampersand character is translated to & and saved that way.
It looks like this:
 :: 
instead of this:
::
And it saved in the broken format displaying on the public site as:
:: 
Edit:
If I change the & back to & it is saved correctly. The field is just populated incorrectly.
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