>If I use & lt ; or & gt ; [Places spaces in so it would show] in a message and then preview it, they will show as anglebrackets as they should, but then as soon I send it from the preview, they are send as normal anglebrackets and not the &; code, so what is between them "disappears" [Invisble in browser] in the send message.

Yes, that is normal. I haven't found a way to tell the browser to resend them as is as soon as they are converted to HTML tag when being send to the browser. If you wish to display tags, just add a space after the opening of the tag.