If I try to put &amp; in, it appears the code is stripping the amp; part, and just keeping the &, and if I try to put a <br /> in, this code is striped out all together. How can I use these tags in your module? I really need the ampersands to work, because just having & is not valid xhtml code.

Thanks.

Joomla strips out the &lt;br /&gt;

I believe it may also strip html entities based on what you're experiencing. One way to go around it is to double encode the HTML entities.

So &amp; would become &amp;amp;
Thus when it is stripped, it becomes &amp;

You can do it with a quick search and replace of your code. (most text editors allow search and replace. With notepad i think it is Ctr+H)
Search for "&" and replace with "&amp;"

The other method, is to create a PHP file and upload it to your server. Then use an include in mod_php.

include('/path/to/your/file.php');

using &amp;amp; didn't work either. I'll look at creating seperate files and including them.

Thanks.