raw, unchanged HTML in post and articles

[terickson]

Hello,
If anyone can provide some advice I would be very grateful, as I have been stuck trying to resolve this for 2 weeks.

On my current site, I have an image map of the united states which links to different URLs for each state. The HTML for this image map is valid and works great on any page outside of vbulletin. However, when I paste this HTML into a post, with HTML turned on, something weird happens that puts the links in the wrong places (you click on California and it takes you to the New Hampshire page). I was unable to get any help from vbulletin staff or the forums on this, so I decided that my only option was to use flash. So I bought a flash map of the US, configured it, it works fine outside of vbulletin, but again, did not work once used in a post or article. I figured out that part of the code for the flash map was being translated into smilies, which cannot apparently disabled in articles, so I put it into a post, and the smiley problem went away but it still isn't working due to the HTML manipulation that vbulletin does, like inserting <tbody> tags into tables and other things like that. Therefore, I'm wondering if there is a way that anyone knows of to wrap your html with some other tags that will tell vbulletin not to change it at all? Something like this is what I'm imagining:

[vbulletindonotchange]<table><tr><td></td></tr></table>[/vbulletindonotchange]

Does something like this exist? Any other ideas on how to get a post or article to actually post the same exact code that you enter?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.