X-Cart forums - code stripping out of product description in 4.7.5

Ok, I'm creating a new "mod" because we have tons of special order items in our store.

I'm adding, to the product details admin page, a couple of text boxes - just like the "description" and "full description" boxes.

I have the updating into the correct (new) fields in the database (in products_lng_en table) - but when I post html tags in, they're getting stripped out.

I've essentially copied the exact code for the description fields, simply changing out the DB field names appropriately.

If I include code in the description fields, those do NOT get stripped out (the same exact code).

So, how the heck do I get it to not strip the code out of the new fields?!??!

Code:

<tr> 

{if $geid ne ''}<td width="15" class="TableSubHead"><input type="checkbox" value="Y" name="fields[spcnote]" /></td>{/if}

 <td colspan="2" class="FormButton"><div{if $active_modules.HTML_Editor and not $html_editor_disabled} class="description"{/if}>{$lng.lbl_special_order_product_note}:</div>

<div class="description-data">{include file="main/textarea.tpl" name="spcnote" cols=45 rows=12 class="InputWidth" data=$product.spcnote width="100%" btn_rows=4}

{if $product.xss_spcnote eq "Y"}<font class="Star">&lt;&lt;</font>{/if}</div></td>

</tr>

my DB field here is "spcnote" (special order note)

This code is EXACTLY the same as the desc code, other than the field name. And the fields are set up the exact same as the built in x-cart fields....

help? :)

Developing for 4.7.5 Gold Plus