I just found a simple way to modify my RSS feed to include full stories and their html tags. It validates and shouldn't break anything.

Here's how you do it:

• go to Layouts - Skins - RSS Feed - RSS Item
• find the line that says <% param.text prefix="<description>" suffix="</description>" encoding="xml" %>
• replace it with <% story.content part="text" prefix="<description><![CDATA[" suffix="]]></description>" %>

way it's done (usually). don't forget to add a <![CDATA[...]]> section around the 'title' element content too.

thanks for the tip. It works like a charm.