Better fromating control

I am starting a new multi-author site in wordpress 2.7.1 and I want it to be really easy for users to get there content into the site.

One of the key problems is that the TinyMCE control makes it too easy for users to get into a mess with there formatting, and not all the users will know how to edit the HTML.

This is compounded when users copy and paste content from other HTML sources, as the formatting and code is brought with them into the post, causing font changes, and lots of unwanted tags.

I looked into implementing Textile, but that doesn’t seem to work very well with 2.7.1.

There must be a way of giving my authors a clean and simple way to create content, without me having to worry that the formatting is going to be a mess.