On 2 threads the itallics won't go away, I tried adding about 75 < /i >'s to the post to no avail. When I view source I don't even see an < i > tag to start 'em off!
See:
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3bb3f86e349a.htm
and
http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3bb467aa0cc4.htm
Thanks
I've had the opposite problem. On a few replies, I had to do some serious tweaking just to be able to italicize a paragraph in the middle of my post.
What seemed to finally get the job done was swapping the order of my <p><i> tag pairs, but lord knows why that should make any difference... It never used to.