Thread:Extension talk:WYSIWYG/Break characters, media links

We formerly had the FCKEditor WYSIWYG editor installed under MediaWiki 1.13.3. It had its share of problems, but now we've upgraded to MediaWiki 1.17.0 and correspondingly upgraded to this version of the WYSIWYG editor. We have significant issues. This is an intranet wiki, I cannot give a link. The users create many tables, which is the driving motivation behind having the WYSIWYG editor.

I keep thinking we can't be the only installation with these problems, but can't find anything. Generally, if there is a workaround or fix, I can find it.

HTML breaks ( or ) get duplicated over and over. Yes, these get used in tables here frequently. We've gone so far as to write up instructions for correcting over-break'ed wikitext in notepad/wikitext editor.

Media tags are getting zapped immediately upon opening wikitext editor created content in the WYSIWYG.

Those are the major problems, life would be better if I could get these resolved for my users. Many thanks in advance!