Pier - IMG placement

Pier Experts,
At my work, we've been running a smallwiki (the origininal version of  
pier) for about 3 years, and have accumulated around 3k pages.  While  
looking into upgrading to pier, I noticed that the newest images on  
** site resolve the missing slash problem (backslashes disappear in  
preformatted text if they don't preceed a *), however there's a new  
problem.  Suppose I have images intermingled with text, such as:
         text1
         <IMG ALT="Picture1" src="http://apache/resources/images/ 
pic1.png" />
         text2
         <IMG ALT="Picture2" src="http://apache/resources/images/ 
pic2.png" />
         text3
Assuming that the apache server is down, it would appear as:
         text1
         Picture1
         text2
         Picture2
         text3
With the new version of pier, it is displaying as:
         text1
         Picture1 text2
                   Picture2 text3
Does anyone know a way to fix this?  Is it in the CSS or in the ST code?

Thanks in advance,
John Borden

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