Here's the deal:

Here's the string I'm looking for:

"\>=("

And here's the string I enter in:

say ">=(

Lo and behold, it doesn't notice that >=( symbol, even though I explicitly tell it to, because of the extra \ in front of the search string. Problem is, if I remove that \ part of the macro, it screws up the IMG tag that the search string is a part of... =P

Is this at all fixable?

(If I type

say "\>=(

it works, but that's hardly a reasonable thing to ask of players. =P)