[mehetabelo]

Since cryzed remarked on it, I figured I'd note that I noticed the unicode error too, but it was on some really, really old fanfiction stuff that I had wanted to get a bulk list for, then clean it up and get the stories I had on my list but hadn't read in a really long time. Mostly it was annoying because when it caused the error everything that was being downloaded was 'lost' and I had to start again, and it had already marked anything before the error as read.

When it didn't work I just put it off, since there was no real need to support it for ff.net stuff that old. However, now that I think about it, there may be other site update emails that will cause the problem. If it matters, for fanfiction.net stuff is pre mid-Sept 2006 and was basically nailing errors on things like: ' or " or * along with some of the odder characters (IE: Æ) when they were in the text.

Edit:Also, Cryzed, thanks for the code. I'm going to figure it out and probably use it. At one point there was a simple html that you could insert the story ID into and use that as a direct link, as long as you were logged into ff.net. I know I have seen it mentioned before. I don't know what it is though. But it will be damn useful to be able to do it in bulk again when I get time to sit down for a while to use your code.