(Dont know why my posts lose all formatting and paragraphs though)

That's because you haven't put any formatting into your posts! PerlMonks posts are HTML formatted by the poster (or by a janitor if you've been really naughty). Please see Writeup Formatting Tips and at the very least use  <p> ... </p> (paragraph) tags for text and  <c> ... </c> (code) tags for code/data/input/output.