Character styles & Body paragraph style not rendering as specified

Hi, I am creating my first epub, and am using InDesign CS 5 (no intention of upgrading). I've constructed it as a book, each chapter in its own file. I am encountering two problems I am unable to think my way out of:
1. None of the three character styles are rendering as they should.
-"Bold" text is rendering much larger than "Body" paragraph style, even though both are specified at 18 px.
-"Bullet" renders as UL, but at a much smaller point size than "Body" despite being specified as 18px.
-"Ital" is also rendering a much larger font size than is should.
2. I don't seem to be able to affect spacing between "Body" paragraphs, or below h1, etc.
Any insights? Any help?
Here is the CSS:
@font-face {
font-family: Times New Roman;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
src:url("../Fonts/timesbd.ttf");
@font-face {
font-family: Times New Roman;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src:url("../Fonts/times.ttf");
@font-face {
font-family: Minion Pro;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src:url("../Fonts/MinionPro-Regular.otf");
@font-face {
font-family: Helvetica;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: bold;
src:url("Fonts/hvb____.PFB");
@font-face {
font-family: Times New Roman;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: normal;
src:url("../Fonts/timesi.ttf");
div.generated-style {
div.generated-style-2 {
div.generated-style-3 {
p.h1 {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 2em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: center;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em 0em 1em 0em;
p.author {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 2em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: center;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em;
p.body {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1.50em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: left;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em;
p.basic-paragraph {
font-family: "Minion Pro";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: left;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em;
p.h2 {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1.67em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: left;
color: #000000;
margin: 1em 0em 0.50em 0em;
p.h3 {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1.50em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: left;
color: #000000;
margin: 0.78em 0em 0em 0em;
p.bullet {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1.50em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0.06em;
text-align: left;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em 0em 0.56em 1.39em;
p.caption {
font-family: "Helvetica";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1.33em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: center;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em;
p.pr-head {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1.50em;
line-height: 1.20em;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: normal;
text-indent: 0em;
text-align: center;
color: #000000;
margin: 0em;
span.bold1 {
font-family: "Helvetica";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
font-size: 1.50em;
span.ital {
font-family: "Times New Roman";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 1.50em;
span.no-style-override {
span.h-link {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #0000ff;
span.no-style-override-1 {

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