Jeff,
I just replied to you in another message. My HTML is created in Front Page. But I only use that for my Template. No Front Page additions or anything like that. The actual description text I am writing in Word and copying over to the editor.
I'm beginning to think a big part of the issue is with IE. I've been messing around with it all day and think I may have it fixed, mostly.
I went back to Firefox and opened the editor. I did the cut and paste from Word and it almost came across without a problem. I had to do a few minor edits and luckily it didn't get messed up when I previewed.
I tried messing around by changing my template since one of my previous support responses said it could be the template. I removed some items and tried again in IE with the same problems. I went back to my original template and going through the Firefox it worked, kind of. It was the same as I indicated above.
In any case I will experiment some more. I just need to exercise patience here.