         if (classInitialized)
             return;
 
+        staticConfiguration = 
+            Configuration(TextContainerManager.defaultConfiguration).clone();
+        staticConfiguration.manageEnterKey = false; // default is true
+        staticConfiguration.manageTabKey = false;   // default is false
+
         staticPlainTextImporter =
-            TextConverter.getImporter(TextConverter.PLAIN_TEXT_FORMAT);
+            TextConverter.getImporter(TextConverter.PLAIN_TEXT_FORMAT,
+            staticConfiguration);
         
         // Throw import errors rather than return a null textFlow.
         // Alternatively, the error strings are in the Vector, importer.errors.

            characterFormat, paragraphFormat, containerFormat, selectionState);
        
        // All done with the edit manager.
        releaseEditManager();
    }

    /**

     *  @private
     */
    private static var classInitialized:Boolean = false;

    /**
     *  @private
     *  Create a single Configuration used by all Text instances.  
     *  It tells the TextContainerManager that we don't want it 
     *  to handle the ENTER key, because we need the ENTER key to behave 
     *  differently based on the 'multiline' property.
     */
    private static var staticConfiguration:Configuration;

    /**
     *  @private
     *  This TLF object is used to import a 'text' String
