I encountered the same problem last week. It's even stranger with a node named 'image', somehow that will get converted to img. I worked around it like this:
[code]var iStart = data.indexOf("<?xml");
var sData = data.substr(iStart).replace(/(image\>)/g,oSettings.rplImage
+">").replace(/(\<image)/g,"<"+oSettings.rplImage).replace(/(link\>)/
g,oSettings.rplLink+">").replace(/(\<link)/g,"<"+oSettings.rplLink);[/
code]
