Popup box text changing to italics

[Raymond_CharlesCrew]

I am having a annoying problem, the pop-up boxes I have from the Header Controller and eSplash widget keeps changing to Italics. This is only happening in Internet Explorer. I clearly have no tags about italic text, nor do I have any in my main config file.  I am using version 3.6 of the flex viewer running on Linux web-servers and using 10.2 REST services.

Does anyone have any ideas? (Beyond the obvious of not using IE)

<configuration>
    <links>
        <link label="Help and Feedback">
        <content height="240" width="260" closelabel="Return to map">        
        <![CDATA[
            <p align='center''>
                    Help and Feedback:
                    <br></br>
                    <br></br>
                    For help on using this viewer, consult the application <a href="help/help_imv.html" target='_blank'></font>help file.</a>
                    <br></br>
                    <br></br>
                    National population estimates are from the <a href="http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/" target='_blank'>International Data Base.</a>
                    <br></br>
                    <br></br>
                    Address questions and feedback regarding the data and maps to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division: <a href="mailto:pop.global.map.list@census.gov">pop.global.map.list@census.gov</a>
                    <br></br>
                    <br></br>
            </p>
            ]]>
        </content>
        </link>
        </links>
</configuration>

[Raymond_CharlesCrew]

My raw code in the header controler widget:

<configuration>

    <links>

        <link label="Help and Feedback">

        <content height="240" width="260" closelabel="Return to map">       

        <![CDATA[

            <p align='center''>

                    Help and Feedback:

                    <br></br>

                    <br></br>

                    For help on using this viewer, consult the application <a href="help/help_imv.html" target='_blank'></font>help file.</a>

                    <br></br>

                    <br></br>

                    National population estimates are from the <a href="http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/" target='_blank'>International Data Base.</a>

                    <br></br>

                    <br></br>

                    Address questions and feedback regarding the data and maps to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division: <a href="mailto:pop.global.map.list@census.gov">pop.global.map.list@census.gov</a>

                    <br></br>

                    <br></br>

            </p>

            ]]>

        </content>

        </link>

        </links>

</configuration>