Effing #&*\/@ IE... again!

I've just realised that Microsoft Internet Explorer is not rendering my blog correctly!

Specifically, it seems to be applying yet another wondrous Redmond innovation, whereby the tag sequence <br/><br/> (two newlines) is conveniently collapsed into <br/> (a single newline) thus saving the reader a whole lot of screen space! How thoughtful.

Now, I know it is completely unreasonable both of the Blogger WYSIWIG editor and of me to rely on the method of using two RETURNS to start a new paragraph, and I am gripped by pangs of remorse for doing so and a vague sense of deep shame. Serves me right, too.

Thing is, I don't know what to do now.
I could go back and try putting in three <br/>s in hope that might work.
However, this will bugger up the formatting for users of proper browsers.
I could scrap the WYSIWIG editor and rewrite everything in HTML, using a proper CSS <p class="xxx"> tag, haha... right.
Or I could just apologise to IE users, and ask them to live without proper paragraph separation. (A bitch on longer texts, I know.)

I have, at any rate, added a icon.

Any other ideas?