OK, now I think I got it. To make it work in both MSIE and Netscape, the code for a left angle bracket has to be:

ampersand-lt-semicolon

-or-

<

I thought Andreas was using the semicolon as punctuation, but I guess it's an integral part of the whole shebang.
Does it look right now, Barbara? If I'm correct, the next character you should see is a correct line break symbol:

<br>

-Joe Offer-