Mac OS X EI TEXTAREA Problem

I am setting a MySQL update page where a user is provided a HTML form to update with data auto poulated from a MySQL database via PHP. All the form element work except for TEXTAREA. No matter what encoding I use (htmlspecial, htmlentities etc) I get the browser displaying garbeld text. Example: MySQL data: Headquartered in ABC Building in Anytown, Any Province, ABC Inc. employs approximately 2,500 people and holds almost $9 billion in quality growth assets. A fully integrated oil and gas company, ABC ranks second in production and third in reserves relative to Canada's four other integrated oil and gas companies and is the fourth-largest downstream retailer. HTML TEXTAREA Source: Headquartered in ABC Building in Anytown, Any Province, ABC Inc. employs approximately 2,500 people and holds almost $9 billion in quality growth assets. A fully integrated oil and gas company, ABC ranks second in production and third in reserves relative to Canada's four other integrated oil and gas companies and is the fourth-largest downstream retailer. TEXTAREA Data: 5{d in ABC Building in Anytown, Any Province, ABC Inc. employs approximately 2,500 people and holds almost $9 billion in quality growth assets. A fully integrated oil and gas company, ABC ranks second in production and third in reserves relative to Canada's four other integrated oil and gas companies and is the fourth-largest downstream retailer. Or pd in ABC Building in Anytown, Any Province, ABC Inc. employs approximately 2,500 people and holds almost $9 billion in quality growth assets. A fully integrated oil and gas company, ABC ranks second in production and third in reserves relative to Canada's four other integrated oil and gas companies and is the fourth-largest downstream retailer. I can't get the same results in Netscape 7 Mac or either Windows versions. I will blame Microsoft unless there is some obscure encoding issue I can't find. :^) Thanks, Dan