Simple Question.. Simple Answer?

I have set up FCKEditor and it's trimming / deleting my lovely empty line feeds.

This:

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<p>Matthew1471! is an alias for Matthew James Roberts (or &quot;Matthew Roberts&quot; for short) used online when providing technical knowledge, ASP applications and other technical solutions.</p>

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Is becoming:

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<p style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">&quot;What is Matthew1471?&quot;</p>
<p>Matthew1471! is an alias for Matthew James Roberts (or &quot;Matthew Roberts&quot; for short) used online when providing technical knowledge, ASP applications and other technical solutions.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">&quot;How is this hosted?&quot;</p>

If I wrap the code in a HTML tag (like pre) it seems to ignore it.. but then the preview renders it as pre text then instead. I have also tried server side replacing all line feeds with spaces.. there are then technically line feeds but there are "<p>&nbsp;</p>" then which kind of defeats the purpose in having my empty lines. I've also toggled to false and true all the options in the js config that I thought would help.. none of them seemed to.

The empty lines are important because I want to be able to switch back and for the HTML and be able to edit sections (it is a long page), perhaps sometimes in the database itself and possibly not *gasps* in FCKEditor. One big blob of HTML makes it hard to edit.

Can I fix this? I've been googling "FCKEditor trims line feeds" for ages and come up with nothing useful. I'd appreciate if anyone could give me a heads up.

Thanks for your time,
Matthew