Maybe MS changed some security (UAC or what is it called?) policies with the Windows 11 h235 update I installed between your latest 2 releases of CCE2. Wednesdays Version didn't require the additional confirmation to open the exe. Yesterdays Version of CCE2 did.

Edit: About the new way IMDB displays Crew Jobs, it is awful, not only in combination with using CCE2. No clue what they were thinking. The writing credits for 'Play Dirty', for example, look stupid on IMDB with the '&' after each line. And because one guy is also 'credited as' you'll also end up with extra spaces when parsing this with CCE2.

For the 'Play Dirty' Writers, the '&' Symbol is read correctly by CCE2. In Episodes Titles it is read as \u0026D.
Ghosts (US) Season 1, Episodes 8 & 18 for example
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18392014/reference/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11379026/reference/

I am not requesting an update for such a minor thing, but it would be nice to know if the & Symbol in Episodes is a 'me problem' or happens to all of us.