Well, now I feel totally stupid. I never noticed that they updated their editor! It defaults to HTML for me. (probably set that way in preferences from way back when, back when they first started having the new editor with buttons for bold, etc)
Just went and looked and clicked "Standard" and whddya know!
Course, the down side is that competitors have access to it. All our learning html for ebay no longer gives us as much of an edge. But, such is life. Least their editor doesnt have buttons to insert tables and such Here's hoping they leave it as-is for awhile