table is broken after reediting

After creating and saving a page with a table the frist lines of the table look like this:
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<TABLE style="WIDTH: 268px; HEIGHT: 110px" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
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after calling the page again from the db and changing into html-mode the same lines look like this:
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<TABLE style=""WIDTH: " cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 border=0 110px\? HEIGHT: 268px;>
<TBODY>
<TR>
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this is surely not the way it shoud be?

any hints? wolfgang