I copy into LJ's editor plain-text, so it's not usually a problem :S but thanks, I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do it again (hopefully never).

Yeah, I tore my hair out about the formatting thing. LOL it took me half as long to edit it to the right word count as it did to write the story itself, which was aggravating. But I did since I figured I already bothered writing the story so...