Messed up WYSIWYG

Hey guys,

I’ve been having quite a bit of trouble with the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress (2.0.6). It all has to do with formatting.

It tends to always jumble up between paragraphs and line breaks. If I want one, it does the other. I thought the obvious solution would be to do it *manually by hand* so I did do that by clicking on the little “HTML” button and completely re-editing my post by hand manually putting in the “Paragraph” and “Break Line” tags where I needed them. When I did that it looked fine and everything, then as soon as I hit “Save” and went to go view it appeared as if I’d never even edited it by hand.

It’s like if I stick three Break Line tags in a row so I can get two spaces of emptiness, WP takes those 3 and splits them into two paragraphs or just one Break Line tag as if it was error correcting or something.

My question is: is there any way around this?
Obviously using the WP WYSIWYG editor isn’t doing any good for me and when I enter the post in by hand and do all of the HTML tags myself it still ends up cutting lots of them out if they are paragraph and/or line breaks.

Any help would be really appreciated, I’m clueless as to how to fix this if it’s possible.

Thank you,
Andrew