Hello, we're having 2 problems with special characters in the newest release of zen cart (v1.5.5a). The problems are:

When saving a newly created ez-page, if there is an ampersand symbol (&) in the title, the "&" symbol is converted and displayed as &.

The second problem is when changing any of the layout settings in admin (Configuration-Layout Settings) that have a symbol, for example the "Categories Separator between the Category Name and Sub Categories" to something other than the default (|_ ) such as    which is 2 spaces, the outcome is   . Even trying to change it back to the default is impossible because the outcome is |_ .

All web browsers are displaying the same results.

We have an older version (v1.5.1) of zen cart (different domain) running on the same server and it doesn't have this problem. Does anyone have any ideas or is anyone even having the same problem running the newest version (v1.5.5a)?