Blank Lines / Newlines

Pardon me.

I tried paragraph tags, both alone and with an &nbsp (tab) in them, and I tried the br tags, both in a paragraph tag and seperately.

Try:

<br /><br />

Nope, still gets eaten up.

Hm, this may be a job for the WordPress.com support team. Try the “Feedback” tab in your admin interface.

ashes999,
ask your questions at wp.com.
We do not support their users.

Will do, thanks!

This seems to be an bug in oldschool WP1.5. While I can include a BR tag in a P tag (shows up ok in the HTML editor), Save and Continue eats it.