Free RTE ( http://freerichtexteditor.com/ ) . Problem preloading content.

Hello Experts,

I am new to ASP and relatively new to JS, so I apologize for this silly question.

I have a problem preloading content to  Free Rich Text Editor( http://freerichtexteditor.com/ ).
I included all the requires files to my ASP page:

<script LANGUAGE="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/Includes/JS/config.js"></script>
<script LANGUAGE="javascript" type="text/javascript" SRC="/Includes/JS/richtext.js"></script>

and initialized RTE in my <table></table> successfully:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
initRTE(' ', ' ');
</SCRIPT>

Now I need to preload some content there. I have a variable on my page which is basically a value from the DB, which is generated dynamically and I can' hardcode it. The value of this variable is supposed to preload in the textarea of RTE.

I tried to initialize RTE like this, first parameter is supposed to be preloaded content.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
initRTE('<%=myVariable%> ', ' ');
</SCRIPT>

But it didn't work.

At the same tme  initRTE('some text ', ' '); works just fine.

I came across the following example for ASP:

http://mrcmain.net/Smitha/RTE/examples/example.asp

Can someone help me to make it work with VB6?

Thanks in advance.