htmlText with an embedded font?

:hangover: This is driving me nuts - lol
I have an html text field that I want to use as an ongoing chat field (dynamic) and since flash has alignment issues with images inside text, I thought I’d embed a nice picturesque font and then just code them apart

e.g <p><font face=’_sans’ size=‘12’>Hello </font><font size=‘21’> there</font></p>

The embedded font is the default font for the textbox, so only the non graphical text needs to have a font face. So in that example “Hello” would be in text and “there” would be the graphical font.

Problem is, after much trouble even getting the font to embed and appear, that the sans text never appears.

Also, Iam constranied in that I have to publish as flash 6.
Nice challenge for you all - lol

Any help greatly appreciated.:evil2: