Can't modify past textareas?

First of all... Awesome program! I've installed CKEditor and it's working great!

I do have a problem though... I've created software to manage a personal website and incorporated the CKEditor to fully manage and edit each page individually. I have a "Contact Me" page that has a form with a textarea for the contact message. However, when I go back to edit the Contact page with the textarea, when the script sees the </textarea> tag for the contact message, it automatically closes the CKEditor textarea itself and no longer allows me to edit anything PAST that point.

<script type="text/javascript" src="./source/ckeditor.js"></script>
<script src="./source/include.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="./source/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<textarea cols="90" name="editor1" id="editor1" rows="12" class="ckeditor">
<h2>Contact Me</h2>
            <fieldset>
            <legend>Send me a message</legend>
            <form action="/contactme.php" method="post">
              <p>
                <label for="name">Name:</label>
                <input name="name" id="name" value="" type="text" />
              </p>
              <p>
                <label for="email">Email:</label>
                <input name="email" id="email" value="" type="text" />
              </p>
              <p>
                <label for="message">Message:</label>
                <textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea>
              </p>
              <p>
                <input name="send" style="margin-left: 150px;" class="formbutton" value="Send" type="submit" />
              </p>
            </form>
            </fieldset>
            <p>&nbsp;</p>   
            
            <p>Or email me at my@email</p>
</textarea>

In this example, when the CKEditor loads, the submit button or the text "Or email me at my@email" is not editable in the editor...it actually prints below the editor- like it's part of the page that the CKEditor is on. Is this a common error and is there a fix?

Thanks.