I can confirm this is still an issue using today's daily build of
Oneiric, however this issue is still not with Ubuntu rather it is with a
GNOME tool.

Steps I took beforehand:
I downloaded the current daily build of oneiric-desktop-amd64.
Installed Oneiric on a new virtual machine in VirtualBox.
Updated it fully.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to /usr/share/themes/ and copy a theme folder to a name with an ampersand 
(I used Radiance which I named Ray&Dance).
2. Open the .desktop file (Radiance.desktop in my case) and edit all the 
occurrences of the name to include the ampersand.
3. Install gnome-tweak-tool (sudo apt-get gnome-tweak-tool).
4. Select "Theme" from the listbox.
5. Click the dropdown menu for either "Window theme" or "GTK+ theme".
6. Notice there is a duplicate of another theme in the list rather than your 
new theme.

So, rather than being a bug in Oneiric where the themes I created in
/usr/share/themes/ would not even show up in the Appearance menu (like a
lot of the other themes that come with GNOME 3 by default); this is a
bug in the gnome-tweak-tool which - I believe - doesn't even come with
Oneiric at the moment.

Also it is worth noting again that I am using a daily build - which is
quite buggy. However, due to the fact that the bug acts just like before
and that the bug exists in a GNOME tool rather than in Ubuntu I do not
believe a bug in the daily build to be the cause.

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  Themes with ampersands do not show up in appearance preferences

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