Yeah, you have to use the & lt; if you want LJ not eat the things in triangle brackets. It thinks it's a bit of HTML. I used to think you had to use & gt; for the > as well, but spotted in an email of a reponse from imc that you could get away without it.

V-day: ah yes, good luck, I'm sure you'll be fine (and well done on the driving test BTW).