MSCOMM Garbage Data Returning on .Input Event

I am using Visual Studio (VB.NET) 2003 to build a very simple application that uses an MSCOMM control to connect to a serial port MSR card reader.  The code is supposed to open the port and wait for a card swipe through the card reader.  Everythign works fine right now, but the data getting returned is all garbled and I am trying to figure out where I went wrong with reading the data.  

The code snippet is attached allong with a print screen of the information getting returned in a message box.

The card that is returning that data should be returning the following instead:

;013035101515158731?

I am very new to MSCOMM so this could be just a setting I have set wrong or something like that, but the fact that the port is opening and returning data makes me believe that the connection settings are correct.

Any help is greatly appreciatd!

 Swipe-Results.doc

 

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        AxMSComm1.PortOpen = True
        If Err.Number = 0 Then
            MsgBox("Open communication!")
        Else
            MsgBox("Error opening COM port. Please verify MSR is set to COM Port 3.")
        End If

        Exit Sub

RegError:
        MsgBox("Error locating ODBC connection. Please verify ODBC connection has been created.")
        End
    End Sub

    Private Sub AxMSComm1_OnComm(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AxMSComm1.OnComm
        Dim InBuffer As String

        Select Case AxMSComm1.CommEvent
            Case MSCommLib.OnCommConstants.comEvReceive

                InBuffer = CStr(AxMSComm1.Input)

                Call HandleInput(InBuffer)
        End Select

    End Sub

    Sub HandleInput(ByVal InBuffer As String)
        ' This is where you will process your input. This
        ' includes trapping characters, parsing strings,
        ' separating data fields, etc. For this case, you
        ' are simply going to display the data in the TextBox.
        txtOCR.Text = InBuffer
        MsgBox(InBuffer)
    End Sub

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