The "&" sign is ruining my life!

Well, its not that bad…

I have writen PHP to deal extract data from MySQL and put into flash. The problem is that I need to have the “&” sign in the body of text that I want to extract. But when it is converted to a form that flash can read (Variables with ‘&’ around them) flash is getting tripped up and cutting off the text to soon!

Is there a way to change modify (maybe inserting ascii) the ‘&’ so that flash dosent freak out??