Retaining br tags in posts

KatGirl: Thanks for the link; I’ll keep an eye on that topic as well.

Viper007Bond: Thank you for the advice. I commented out the line
// add_filter('the_content', 'wpautop');
but unfortunately, the issue persists. Assigning a class to the br tags prevents them from being deleted, but I’m not sure that’s a good long-term solution.

Seriously!

I know there’s a Text Filter plugin which can be used to prevent WordPress from altering the post content coming out of the database; do you know of any which prevent it from altering the content going in?

Yep, spencerp, that’s the one! That solves half the problem; if only there was an equivalent plugin or hack that prevented the <br> <p> </p> tags from being stripped before the post is inserted into the database, I could use them both.