A longer editing time will not fix this issue.

YES the editing time can be increased, but the issue will be the same. The issue is related to a big in the editor.

Nothing i can do to fix that at this time.

The editor used is CKEditor
http://ckeditor.com/

Any user can report the issue and follow up in the CKEDirot community. some help like that from users of this free resource would be great.

I'm happy to set up a mirror system for testing, if its required.

This is an ongoing issue that is annoying.

The ONLY answer to the issue at present is GET IT RIGHT FIRST TIME, do not edit your posts , then the issue does not show.

I could turn off the editor all together.

that would probably not, be an acceptable solution

or i could allow HTML, but then the stupid users will break the forum with bad code and embedded css - probably an even worse solution.