Problems with Apostrophe

Hi Guys,
I'm using HS2 but hope you can help me here anyway.
I found a partial answer in the mcs sprinker section, but it was not ecouraging.

I am writng values to a mdb database. The HAI plug-in assigned my counter values with an '. And yes there are 99 of them. It would be difficult to re-assign the entire HAI system and homeseer doesn't provide a way to re-assign HAI system values. so I am hopeful you guys can help.

objRS("fan") = hs.devicevalue("'20")
objRS("fan") = hs.devicevalue("'''20")
objRS("fan") = hs.devicevalue("'"&"20")
objRS("fan") = hs.devicevalue(chr(39)&"20")

all do not work and will not record a value.

objRS("fan") = hs.devicevalue("_20") or ("]20") or ("#20") all do work in my script.

Trying to retire, I was hoping to find time to get all this stuff up and running again. After weeks assigning names & values I ran in to this issue.

Is it back to square 1 ?
Thanks in advance,
Paul