         staticTextLayoutFormat.paddingBottom = FormatValue.INHERIT;
         staticTextLayoutFormat.verticalAlign = FormatValue.INHERIT;
             
-        // Create a single Configuration used by all TextContainerManager 
-        // 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.
-        staticTextContainerManagerConfiguration =
-            Configuration(TextContainerManager.defaultConfiguration).clone();
-        staticTextContainerManagerConfiguration.manageEnterKey = false;
-        
         staticPlainTextImporter =
-            TextConverter.getImporter(TextConverter.PLAIN_TEXT_FORMAT,
-            staticTextContainerManagerConfiguration);
+            TextConverter.getImporter(TextConverter.PLAIN_TEXT_FORMAT);
         
         // Throw import errors rather than return a null textFlow.
         // Alternatively, the error strings are in the Vector, importer.errors.

    /**
     *  @private
     *  RichEditableTextContainerManager overrides keyDownHandler and calls
     *  this before executing it's own keyDownHandler.
     */ 
    mx_internal function keyDownHandler(event:KeyboardEvent):void
    {

        
        if (event.keyCode == Keyboard.ENTER)
        {
            // Do not let TLF handle the ENTER key if only one line.
            if (!multiline)
            {
                event.preventDefault();
                dispatchEvent(new FlexEvent(FlexEvent.ENTER));
            }
         }
