Percent sign won't show up

programming flash
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I’ve got a script loading in an external text file, and I set it to render text as html, but the percent signs in the text file won’t show up…if I change the percent sign to the html friendly &, then it just skips over all the text after that (the &) completely.

here’s the script (“thetext” is the variable that holds the link to the text file, and “specs” is the instance name of the dynamic text field):

<code>

loadText = new LoadVars();
loadText.load(thetext);
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (success) {
        // trace(success);
        specs.html = true;
        specs.htmlText = this.casualtext;
    }
};

</code>

thanks in advance for the help.