Font Size Gone Wild

I'm having this weird problem on the site I'm building. Every so often, when I put something in italic, the font size for the word I've italicized ends up way bigger than the words around it.
I have been marking the word I want to italicize and using the Font tab in the Format pulldown to select Italic.
So I decided to mark the word and use the Show Fonts pulldown to select exactly the type I want (Helvetica Neua 12 pt. italic) for the word. But that didn't work either.
What is going on?

I got burned out trying to fix this and haven't gone back to it until today.
Still can't solve the problem, and I'm talking the site live on Monday.
I don't really understand your suggestion aboout publishing the site to a folder on my hard drive.
Can you explain in a bit more detail?
This is just nuts. If I leave the words in question in roman type there's no problem. As soon as I add the italics the font size on the italacised words jumps up several sizes. I tried using command i to italicize the words, but that didn't make any difference either. I tried putting the text into Word and pasting it into the box. That didn't help.
Right now I'm thinking I'll just have to leave these book titles in roman.

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Hey! I had exactly the same issue as you! Do you have an addon called WebSecurityKeeper installed into your Firefox, without your permission? Check your Addons list pls. I had this addon and when I uninstalled it, my fonts in Firefox returned to normal.
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