Vista - getting cr/lf out of xml with linq to xml?

I have a line that looks like this in an mfc dll that has clr support enabled
with .net 3.5 selected. strReport is a CString object in the main mfc app
pointed to by pmain. I am reading it back out of an xml file using linq to
xml. in the xml file the cr/lf pairs are ok and it displays fine in
notepad. When i read it back out of the XElement they get filtered which
gives me big run on strings in notepad.

pmain->strReport=CString((String^)xml->Element("strReport"));

I think i was being fooled by the debugger text display into thinking that
the xml element value was ok, but i think from further reading that it is the
load from file where the cr/lf pairs get lost. Is there a way to load from
the xml file to preserve cr/lf pairs in elements???