QuickForm - setDefaults without htmlentities()

Hello, i've saved many datasets in a mysql database with all htmlentities already converted: ===== This is an example dataset<br /> It contains a &amp; and an &ouml; an so on...<br /> ===== The problem i've got is that when I set the default value of an element (textarea in this case) with the text from the database, the text gets htmlentities()'d for a second time and so the text above is displayed in the textbox. I use HTML_QuickForm_Controller, but I'm quite sure this is just a problem of HTML_QuickForm. I couldn't find, how to override the $element->toHtml(), in my case in HTML/QuickForm/Renderer/ITDynamic.php It would be nice, if you can help me, Steffen