Hi Jacquie,
If you have a post that you think is valid but is not displaying correctly, then post a link to it in this forum, and one of the bartenders / sheriffs might be able to spot where the problem is.
The problem with text disapearing on an edit seems to occur when there is some combination of quote tags and code tags and, if I remember correctly, in such circumstances everything up until the start of the code tag is lost (I have been very lucky that I have not experienced this problem for over a year, so I have forgotten the exact details).
Unfortunately this message board software is written in Perl (see
here for details), and appears to have a great many interdependencies. So it is rare for the code to be changed. That link by the way, came from our
JavaRanch FAQ.
Regards, Andrew