Problems with variables sent from my flash form

for some reason the variables being passed by the following script

loadVariablesNum("/cgi-bin/cgiemail/contact/contact.cgi", 0, “POST”);

are adding html tags around the input text… so when they are forwarded to my e-mail - I get these extra html tags around each input text item… Any idea why or how to get rid of them?

<TEXTFORMAT LEADING=“2”><P ALIGN=“LEFT”><FONT
FACE="_sans" SIZE=“12” COLOR="#000000"
LETTERSPACING=“0” KERNING=“0”>input text</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>