non-escaped characters causing prob with LOAD DATA?

hey all,

i just loaded a text file in a table using:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "gt.txt" INTO TABLE guitartabs;

and i am unable to SELECT certain columns using format:
SELECT * FROM guitartabs WHERE (artist = "Van Halen");

selecting by auto_increment ID works fine but any text file comes up empty... any ideas?

and in the text file, i am using {tab} for fields and ' for the records. do i need to use \' for any occurance of a ' character (or !@#$%^&*()- characters)?


thanks,
drGiggles