How do I have a textarea that doesn't convert <> characters to escape

[qhrome27]

Hello,

I have some textarea boxes in my admin section of my store, and they all seem to convert special characters to escape characters.
Example < > & become &lt; &gt; &amp;

Is there any way to disable this functionality in ZenCart? I have tried using zen_draw_textarea_field() and also just the regular <textarea>, but they both seem to convert special characters before saving to the database.

Any help is appreciated.

I know PHP, so technical explanations are OK, I should be able to understand them. I just can't figure out what is doing that conversion.

[kobra]

How about some detail information
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/faq.php