I was able to narrow down the lockup to one css tag, I created a ticket with a sample file but for everyone else here's an example.
This attribute, "margin-left: 25.5em;", seems to be the culprit.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
margin-left: 0em;
margin-right: 0em;
}
.attribution1
{
font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;
margin-top: 0.5em;
margin-bottom: 1.1em;
margin-left: 25.5em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="attribution1">
sample text that doesn't seem to work
</p>
</body>
</html>