Cripes! what is happening to my html/txt files?

Im loading text from txt files into dynamic text boxes and when ever i uploaded them to my server, the html seems to go outta wack… In other workds, what i preview on my machine ain’t the same as what i see off the server. Line breaks and < P > tags are ignored, or producing double spacing where i don’t want it. I also notice that the text looks bigger in the browser than it does in the swf. How can this be?

Do things need to be formated differently, html-wise in a text file in order to work properly on a server?

im stumped :\