The codes starting with an ampersand are HTML. & is the way that HTML represents and ampersand, if I remember right. I don't know why you were seeing an HTML-represented ampersand---did you have one in your project name? It is a good idea to limit your project names to letters, digits, "-", and "_" with no other special characters (not necessarily required, just a good idea for making the files easy to move between different systems).
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