Cdata w/html tags not displaying correctly [mx]

Hi,

i am having an annoying problem with an xml document and flash.

i have a dynamic textfield on the stage and this is set to render html.

in the xml doc i have a child node that is wrapped around cdata (as in the kirupa tut). No matter what i do, i can’t get flash to correctly parse and display the text.

i.e.

in the xml:

<![CDATA[<b>make this bold</b>]]>

so in flash i get this in the text field:
<b>make this bold</b>

tried it with different tags, and read all sorts of forums including this:

all i really want to do is hav line breaks in my block of text (i have some bulleted points and then a paragraph of text).

any help is really appreciated.

thanx