Hey, you may want to read up on how to post here. See Writeup Formatting Tips for example. You are working too hard at it if you start putting PRE tags around things. Just use the HTML P tag for paragraphs and stick CODE tags around your code. If you do that you'll find the fewer people ignore your post as poorly formatted.

Oh yeah, and inside code tags all other html will display as raw text and your square brackets won't turn into links like when put your login in brackets here: mtaylor and here inside code tags [mtaylor] =) Best of all, the site is smart so single lines of code like in the last paragraph are displayed inline but blocks of code are shown as though they were in their own paragraph.

Nice huh? Welcome to the site!

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