>I have used the XMP tags in other forumes without the BR difficulty... I wonder if it is the UT parser doing this?

I would assume so. :-(

It also has the same problem as PRE, where to get the next line after the formatting, you have to put them on the same line: line2< /xmp >Line3, but since this looks like only one line to the UT, when it adds the >'s, it misses this line. :-(