title: How do I fix these absurd side effects of migrating to Joomla! 2.5?
body: <p>I am tasked with migrating a web site from <em>Joomla! 1.5</em> to <em>Joomla! 2.5</em>. That's been a mess, but I finally have the site running.</p>
  
  <p>Here is a chunk of code from one of my articles:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Description &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;A bunch of text goes here&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p style="font-size: 10px;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="some_image.jpg" target="_PCI-104-3000"&gt; &lt;img src="another_image.jpg" border="1" alt="Image of The Thing" height="120px" /&gt;
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  <p>When I mouse over the paragraph in the middle there ("A bunch of text goes here"), or the title line above it, the entire paragraph turns bold. When the mouse leaves that area, the text returns to normal.</p>
  
  <p>Why? This is the exact same code being run on the <em>Joomla! 1.5</em> version of the site, and over there it isn't doing this. Does the new version of <em>Joomla!</em> have a problem reading HTML?</p>