any fix for br and p being stripped?

Hi,

I’m using 3.3.1 with only the php exec and post expirator plugins. The editor will sometimes, but not always strip the br and p tags from code. And what’s even weirder is that it does it in some places, but not others.

<td xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><em><strong>The Forgetting, A Portrait of Alzheimer’s (Documentary Video)</strong></em>There is no video of this session. <em>The Forgetting, A Portrait of Alzheimer’s</em> was shown in class. If you wish to watch this video, <strong><a href="http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/watch/index.html">click here</a></strong>. <a href="http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/nhlp/?page_id=554">QUESTIONS</a></td>

This was all hand typed into WP, so no copying and pasting issues. There is supposed to be an extra blank line before the words “There is no video.” I’ve put in br and p tags several times, checked that the page displayed properly, then hit the update button again and they are removed. Other places on the page have br and p tags that are never stripped. I’ve also noticed a lot of <em></em><em></em><em></em><em></em> in the code and it is getting added after just hitting the update button without actually doing anything.

Any ideas? I can’t really tell my users to always make sure that after they edit a page to go back in and add all the spacing back in. After every edit. Yikes.