ceebeegee | Blogging Frustration

Does anyone here blog on another platform besides LJ? My history blog is on Blogger and it's driving me CRAZY. Like, I actually HATE writing on it--I get very tense, I feel as though I'm fighting it. The problem is the autoformat function--I cannot turn it off. It keeps "adding" tags and code and the interface between the HTML editor and the Rich Text editor is TERRIBLE. It will look one way on Rich Text and then when you go back to HTML, suddenly all this new code has appeared. I try to take it out but it just keeps adding it.

I slave over my entries, trying to get them to look just so and then I post them and they look like garbage. I've tried checking various blogger support boards but no one who actually works for Blogger ever checks in there--just other posters who suggest solutions that doesn't actually work. At this point I'm ready just to move on to another platform--as long as they do not autoformat. I can't go through this again, it's too frustrating.