RESOLUTION: I now understand what the problem was, and how to deal with it. The problem occurs when I use "--" in any text and then enclose that text in HTML comment delimiters (<!-- ... -->). If there are any "--" in the enclosed text, HTML "interprets" them as the end of the comment.

Explanation: Referring to <!-- and --> as the HTML comment delimiters is inaccurate. A more accurate statement is that < and > are the HTML tag delimiters, and !-- and -- are the comment delimiters which work as comment delimiters only within an HTML tag.

I don't entirely blame myself for misinterpreting HTML comment delimiters, because I found several other pages which referred to <!-- and --> as the HTML comment delimiters.

This page could be deleted, as the above explanation exists elsewhere (in different words). Maybe we should leave this page here for a month or so and then delete it?

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This is being developed as a test page -- it currently displays some of the symptoms of the problem -- I will do some work to minimize the size of the page and make it more clear.

Ok, I've got the behavior duplicated and some notes in bold to call attention to the things you should not see. If you don't see those bold faced notes (starting "You should not see this, ..."), then you are not experiencing the bug. If you do see those notes, you are seeing the bug. At some point in time I might try to reduce the size of this example, but for now it at least works.

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