code tag

Is there any way to prevent the editor from messing with content within code tags? Members of our forum use code tags quite a bit, and often to make forms or examples out of bbcode. However, the editor aggressively strips these, as well as some formatting options. I'm writing this in the...

Instead of this: ... have this:

My forums extensively use use the CODE bbcode tag for code. But I want sometimes use a different background and font colour (black background + white text) like I do on my main site see example at http://centminmod.com so want to duplicate the CODE bbcode tag with a bbcode named like CODEB or...