stripping <br /> on submit

hi...

having horrible problems

i am unable to add line breaks to input data..

this is a HUGE problem for me...

on submit these tags are stripped...

i can see them in soruce view

here is my current try at this in my config.js

any thoughts?


CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config )
{
   // Define changes to default configuration here. For example:
   // config.language = 'fr';
   // config.skin = 'office2003';
   //config.removePlugins =  'elementspath,enterkey,entities,forms,pastefromword,htmldataprocessor,specialchar' ;
//   config.toolbar = 'Sites';
//   config.toolbar_Sites =   
      config.skin = 'v2';
  config.extraPlugins = 'smeditimage,smimage';
  config.smimage_directory = '/site-images/';
  config.toolbar = 'Advanced';
   config.toolbar = 'Sites';
   config.toolbar_Sites =
[
    ['Save','NewPage','Preview','-','Templates'],
    ['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Print', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],
    ['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
     '/',
    ['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
    ['NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote','CreateDiv'],
    ['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
    ['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
    ['Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak'],
   ['Image','SMEditImage','-','Source'],
    '/',
    ['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
    ['TextColor','BGColor'],
    ['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks','-']
];



};
var writer = editor.dataProcessor.write;

// The character sequence to use for every indentation step.
writer.indentationChars = '\t';

// The way to close self closing tags, like <br />.
writer.selfClosingEnd = ' />';

// The character sequence to be used for line breaks.
writer.lineBreakChars = '\n';

// Set writing rules for the <p> tag.
writer.setRules( 'p',
    {
        // Indicates that this tag causes indentation on line breaks inside of it.
        indent : false,

        // Insert a line break before the <p> tag.
        breakBeforeOpen : true,

        // Insert a line break after the <p> tag.
        breakAfterOpen : true,

        // Insert a line break before the </p> closing tag.
        breakBeforeClose : false,

        // Insert a line break after the </p> closing tag.
        breakAfterClose : true
    });

this was my previous config file - this also failed...


CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config )
{
   // Define changes to default configuration here. For example:
   // config.language = 'fr';
   // config.skin = 'office2003';
   //config.removePlugins =  'elementspath,enterkey,entities,forms,pastefromword,htmldataprocessor,specialchar' ;
//   config.toolbar = 'Sites';
//   config.toolbar_Sites =   
      config.skin = 'v2';
     config.enterMode = CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR;
  config.extraPlugins = 'smeditimage,smimage';
  config.smimage_directory = '/site-images/';
  config.toolbar = 'Advanced';
   config.toolbar = 'Sites';
   config.toolbar_Sites =
[
    ['Save','NewPage','Preview','-','Templates'],
    ['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Print', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],
    ['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
     '/',
    ['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
    ['NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote','CreateDiv'],
    ['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
    ['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
    ['Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak'],
   ['Image','SMEditImage','-','Source'],
    '/',
    ['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
    ['TextColor','BGColor'],
    ['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks','-']
];



};
CKEDITOR.on( 'instanceReady', function( ev )
    {
        // Out self closing tags the HTML4 way, like <br>.
        //ev.editor.dataProcessor.writer.selfClosingEnd = '>';
         ev.editor.dataProcessor.writer.setRules( 'p',
                    {
                        indent : false,
                        breakBeforeOpen : true,
                        breakAfterOpen : false,
                        breakBeforeClose : false,
                        breakAfterClose : true
                  
                    });
    });

many thanks for any and all help!