Joomla Content Plugins not working within Hikashop

I am trying to use Content Plugins inside the product descriptions and it's not working. I have searched the forum but didn't find anything specific to my situation. (at least that I know of)

I am specifically trying to get an mp3 plugin to load. It works in my articles but when I paste the exact same working code into my Hikashop descriptions it just shows me the code in the front end and doesn't process anything. I tried to rule out the editor so I changed from jce to tiny and that didn't help. I see from research that content plugin processing has been added for quite some time for product and category descriptions. This leads me to believe I must be doing something wrong. Is there something I need to activate?

And also this is just more information to let you know what I have tried to fix the issue. I found this thread that said I could load a plugin in place of my picture. Well since I am trying to load a plugin and they were trying to load a plugin I gave it a shot.

www.hikashop.com/en/support/forum/4-how-...-you-tube-video.html

I learned from that thread that I could create a custom field and have it automatically load my plugin code onto the page using that custom field. Well it did the job great and now I have the custom plugin code in place of my picture. But it's just the code. It is not being processed.

What am I doing wrong?

and also to make sure I specify. I am not using any characteristics and the code that I used to get the custom field to work was <?php echo JHTML::_('content.prepare','{s5_mp3}'.$this->row->song_demo_name.'{/s5_mp3}'); ?> and I created the custom field of course.

The plugin code that I used for the descriptions that works in my articles but not in my hikashop descriptions is {s5_mp3}1.mp3{/s5_mp3}

Also more information is I am using Hikashop business 1.5.5 and Joomla 1.7.0
I uninstalled Hikashop so I could see if that would fix the problem and it didn't. Strangely enough it also didn't reset the views either. Once I reinstalled it still had my custom changes to the product view page. So obviously it kept it stored somewhere. I deleted all of the hikashop database tables and made sure the component/com_hikashop folder was gone.
Could this issue be because I started with an older version of hikashop and upgraded and it's not upgrading the description to be processed by the content plugins?

hmmm... sounds like a plan. Tell me a content plugin that is known to work and I will test it out.
And thank you for your response.

You are 100% correct. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I installed tabber since I found it mentioned in other threads and it works perfectly in the hikashop description.

I now know what the problem is. You have saved me days of frustration.

Thank You.

Oh yeah and Hikashop is great.

p.s. how strange is it that I found tabber and used it before I read your response... lol