[av8or1]

FINAL ANSWER:

Sure enough that was the key. By simply making a call into the wysiwyg functions and exchanging the HTML tags for BB equivalents, everything works as expected. I realize that this is true only because the forum in which this post is being made allows BB code. If that option was switched off, then naturally it wouldn't render the page as expected. However vB discourages use of HTML tags - and for good reason - not BB codes, so I'll adhere to that recomendation.

BTW, here was the line of code that made the difference. This was located outside my function shown above, in a data prepare step. No other changes made to my function:

PHP Code:

$mypost['body'] = convert_wysiwyg_html_to_bbcode($mypost['body']); 


And of course you'll need the include somewhere within the scope of the above call:

PHP Code:

require_once( LMDIR . '/includes/functions_wysiwyg.php'); 


Thanks! Hope this helps someone in the future.