Remove html entities in forum topic
This sounds like data transformation problem; the import didn't format the HTML entity title data on import. Instead of trying to code around the problem in your template, you should reformat your node titles.

Run a code snippet (e.g. drush scr myscript.php) that can fix the formatting on your nodes. Something like:

// @TODO: Retrieve your list of imported node nids in the $nids array
$nids = array(4, 5); 
foreach ($nids as $nid) {
  $node = node_load($nid);
  $node-&gt;title = html_entity_decode($node-&gt;title);
  node_save($node);
}