WPAlchemy Multiple Wordpress TinyMCE editors using wp_editor

faculty_meta.php

<p>
        <label>Publications</label>
    	<?php 
		$mb->the_field('publications');

        $val = html_entity_decode($mb->get_the_value());
	$id = $mb->get_the_name();
        $settings = array(
		'textarea_rows' => 6,
		'quicktags' => array(
                        'buttons' => 'em,strong,link',
                ),
                'quicktags' => true,
                'tinymce' => true
        );
		
        wp_editor($val, $id, $settings);
		?>
    	<span>Enter in a list of the publications</span>
    </p>

functions.php

// Adds WPAlchemy MetaBox PHP Class to allow easy creation of metaboxes in WP admin
include_once 'metaboxes/setup.php';
include_once 'metaboxes/simple-spec.php';

/*******************************************************/
/*                TinyMCE editor changes               */
/*******************************************************/

// function to add customizations to TinyMCE
function __my_tiny_mce( $config )
{
    $config['theme_advanced_path'] = false; // removes path info at the bottom of TinyMCE editors

    return $config;
}
add_filter('tiny_mce_before_init', '__my_tiny_mce');

// functions to prevent wordpress from "cleaning up" the HTML output in TinyMCE
//recreate the default filters on the_content
add_filter( 'meta_content', 'wptexturize'        );
add_filter( 'meta_content', 'convert_smilies'    );
add_filter( 'meta_content', 'convert_chars'      );
//use my override wpautop
if(function_exists('override_wpautop')){
	add_filter( 'meta_content', 'override_wpautop' );
	} else {
	add_filter( 'meta_content', 'wpautop' );
}
add_filter( 'meta_content', 'shortcode_unautop'  );
add_filter( 'meta_content', 'prepend_attachment' );

single-faculty.php

<?php echo apply_filters('meta_content',html_entity_decode($simple_mb->get_the_value('publications'))); ?>