sendAndLoad doesn't preserve new lines

The user fills out a flash “send a postcard” with their name, email, destination and message. The flash file sends everything to a PHP page that writes everything to a database and then sends a postcard to the recipient.

My problem is that hard returns in the message are not being passed to the PHP page. Here is some code:

postcard_lv = new LoadVars();
result_lv = new LoadVars();

postcard_lv.message = obj.mcPostCard.messageTxt.text;

postcard_lv.sendAndLoad(“http://www.the-url/index.php",result_lv,"POST”)

I’ve been struggling with this for days. I even tried detecting the character code for a hard return in the message and replacing it with a ‘<br>’ but the script locked my browser up. Any help would be greatly appreciated.