Savant question

I am trying to use savant and having a few odd problems. I plan on making a simple DB driven site where the majority of the content is held in the DB. I have created a basic template (header, footer, nav and content) to just echo out the content (the content will have a html to format it the way I want). Simple right. Problem: All the html mark up is being ignored and the content is just "dumping" there. Check for htmlentities you say... did and they are there. So I try to get rid of it with html_entity_decode - thus giving me my html formating back right? Wrong. Same problem. Am I missing something? index.php // here we get content. Normally this will be by pulling it out of the DB $savant->content = '

       <center>
       <h2>This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System</h2>
       <p>This is <font color="#008000" size="5">ONLY</font> a test.  If this was a real emergancy information would be provided here.  This is a test.</p>
       </center>';

$savant->display('page.tpl.php'); page.tpl.php <div id="cont">

    <?php
    if(!empty($this->content))

{

        echo "{$this->_($this->content)}";
        echo '<----------------------- Break --------------------------->';
        echo html_entity_decode($this->_($this->content));
    }
    ?>

</div> displayed in browser page: <center> <h2>This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System</h2> <p>This is <font color="#008000" size="5">ONLY</font> a test.</p> </center><----------------------- Break ---------------------------> <center> <h2>This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System</h2> <p>This is <font color="#008000" size="5">ONLY</font> a test.</p> </center> browser page source: <div id="cont"> &lt;center&gt; &lt;h2&gt;This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is &lt;font color=&quot;#008000&quot; size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;ONLY&lt;/font&gt; a test.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/center&gt;<----------------------- Break ---------------------------> &lt;center&gt; &lt;h2&gt;This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting System&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is &lt;font color=&quot;#008000&quot; size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;ONLY&lt;/font&gt; a test.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/center&gt; </div> -- Respectfully, Ligaya Turmelle "Life is a game.... so have fun"