Can't View Editor Window with Multiple Lines

I'm having a problem that MUST be fixable given that this product is otherwise perfect, but I can't seem to get around this issue. I don't understand how this specific problem can exist given the popularity of this product.

I am working in ASP and have a site which my client would like to edit herself. I set the editor up on the first editable page here:

http://dev.njahp.org/FormEditTicker.asp

When you click 'submit' the text displays fine, and if you click 'edit' to make changes the editor shows up and you can make changes as needed. However, this is because I will never need more than one line of text for this particular section. My problem comes when I need to have multiple lines of text separated by a <br> (or <br />) or a <p></p> tag as exemplified here under the NJAHP News section:

http://dev.njahp.org/default.asp

It's pulling from the database fine, but if you click 'edit' the text editor doesn't show up. If I add more than one line of text to the editor (or to the database manually) and hit submit it is displayed fine (and is being pulled from an Access database). However, when I click edit again to edit the content, the editor is not visible. When I view the source of the page, however everything is there...for some reason the editor is being prevented from displaying.

It seems to me that the presence of the <br> drops the next part of the content to a new line (say the first headline and it's HTML code is all on line 1 and the next headline because of the <br> is line 2) and that's where the problem starts. So how can I keep all of the copy on one line but still utilize line breaks?

Can anyone help me with his problem? I would imagine this product would not be so popular if this was an issue for everyone. How can I get this to work correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated.