textarea minor problem?

Hello,

I make all of my pages through WP, so I was working on this page to display MySpace tweaks, I wanted to have a textarea with the code in it that users could copy and paste from.

However, it seems that WP is adding some extra tags at the beginning and end of my textarea code. It starts with a </p> and ends with a <p>, but those were not typed in there.

I also have no spaces between the <textarea> and the beginning of the other code.

Here is the example page:
https://mimi-goodies.com/?page_id=24

I would appreciate it if someone could help me remove those paragraph tags. If you would like to see the actual code that I am typing, here it is:

<TEXTAREA cols="50" rows="3" onclick=this.focus();this.select()><style>
.a {hide top search and shortcuts bar}
div table div form {display:none !important}
.bodyContent div td div div select {margin-top:-1000px;}
.bodyContent div div select {width:0px !important;}
.bodyContent table table div form {display:inline !important;}
</style></textarea>

Thanks,
Mimi