Contribute strips carriage return from javascript

Hi
Has anyone had a problem where carriage returns are stripped from javascript by Contribute?
If the code is
<script>

</script>
It ends up as
<script></script>
and it doesn't run because it is all commented out.
Does anyone have a solution apart from removing the comment code?
Administration of the site Editing setting is set to "Allow unrestricted editing" with "Protect scripts and forms" checked.

Thanks. I finally got it to work.
Doing the replace on the original page still got stripped. It didn't like chr(10) or chr(13). It did find /n though.
I had to trigger a function to globally replace all the /n's with dummy text. Then, on the popup page, I had to create a function to globally replace the dummy text with /n's; and trigger in Footer section.
What a pain, just to end up with you already had in the 1st place. lol

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>
> Cheers,
>
> Reg.
>
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