Display HTML (as if displayed in a browser) in List Boxes?

[#1]

I am pulling some data from a database that has some descriptions which have HTML tags wrapped around them. Rather than showing the user the tags I would like for it to display as if run through a browser. Is that possible? I did read another post about using "regexp" which seemed to imply that it could be used to strip the tags. That might get real messy and I would really prefer a browser look as a more user friendly option. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

[#2]

I thought maybe I would attack this from a different angle and created a JavaScript function that I could call to strip the HTML elements:

function stripHTML(theText)
{
theText = replace(theText,'<html><body>','');
theText = replace(theText,'</body></html>','');
theText = replace(theText,'<br>',chr(10)&chr(13));
return theText;
}

However when I attach this function into an expression associated with an action button I get a "failed to launch" error message. Seems to test out okay. Should this be doable????