>Is it possible to embed html "broket u" and "broket /u" in a text field and have it display 'properly' as an underline in an Edit Box? If not an Edit Box, is there any way to do so without .rtf files? Users have been dealing with .rtf files for the last 20 years, they're tired of having to produce over 900/year of them.

How it any different to have to create over 900/year HTML files rather than RTF? What is the requirement? Are you storing the text entered with the underlining? Seems you are just trading one editor for another editor; i.e., instead of editing RTF you would be editing HTML. So what is really different?