Question About VBScript With XML

I am using XMLDOM objects in vbscript to configure and maintain configuration files used by some applications.  I am running into one problem that I have not been able to resolve however.

The text of one particuluar type of node contains the characters &#x0d.  (e.g.  mo:00:47-m:01:58
tu:00:47-tu:001:58
) When the script opens the file it finds these and convert them to carriage return and line feeds.  The application however is expecting the string of characters.

Does anyone know of a way to prevent the script from doing this conversion?

I'm opening the file with code like this:

Set xmlConfigFile = CreateObject ("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xmlConfigFile.Async = "false"
xmlConfigFile.Load(strWorkFilePath)

Then saving it with:

xmlConfigFile.Save(strWorkFilePath)

Thanks.

Dave Thomas