I should mention that clearly the list items are stacking on top of each other instead of displaying inline. I can’t get them to display inline no matter what I do.
gosunatxrea’s fix worked for me on a historical blog on FDR’s first hundred days I just set up on Dreamhost that’s running 2.8.4. I’d give you the link, but we literally just put it up, so it’ll be in flux for quite awhile.
I think the Hover plugin will do that for you. I just added Ann Oyama’s Automatic Links plugin, which adds HTML ‘a’ elements to plain-text URLs, which is exactly what I needed.