Linking FM 9 "At Insertion Point" graphics to an RH 8 project

Using Technical Communication Suite 2, I have built a structured FM 9 book in order to generate a RH 8 help system. This is a software user guide and I cannot avoid using inline graphics in some body elements. The book only has regular .fm documents (one document per topic), each document has English and French conditions, and I have used the Link command to link the book to a Robohelp project. If I save my FM book as a PDF, everything is perfect, which indicates there are no issues with either the EDD or the EDD_TPL files. In Robohelp, I use an .isf file for modifying RHMapping.css; everything but the following works fine.
The problem is that upon first linking the book when I create the RH project, RH insists on reading all the inline graphics (set as "At Insertion Point" in FM) as right-aligned paragraphs. There is nothing in my _TPL template that calls for right-aligning anything. Strange thing is that, if I then delete an image in FM and re-insert it, save the file, update the book and then update the RH project, the image is positioned properly in the body element. This would indicate to me that RH 8 is capable of handling inline graphics (like it always has). Needless to say however, that doing this for around 500 inline graphics would be an onerous solution.
But there is something else. Deleting and re-inserting the graphic in FM also changes the enclosing element's language condition to "As Is", which is an even greater problem, because I then end up with improper condition-based generation of topics. If I then set the element's condition to what I want it to be, the graphic is right-aligned again in RH.
I've been raking my brains for a while now and tried all kinds of kludges, in and out of my EDD - to no avail. If anyone else is currently struggling with, or has found a solution to, this problem, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks

Hi Mark,
I looked at the HTML and I see the problem, but didn't see anything specifically controlling this in the CSS. (I don't have much experience with CSS.)
BTW: I have used your website and Peter Grainge's for help with Help. Thank you!!!
The issue is:
There is a line of text in a Frame file (Lettered ptag). In the line of text, there is an anchored frame set to "At Insertion Point." Looks like this:
3. Click <image in anchored frame> (Add Attachment).
When the file is linked to RH, it is creates two <p> sections for the text and between those a separate <div> section aligned to the right for the image. This is the HTML:
<li type="a"><p class="Lettered"><?rh-cbt_start condition="Online, Print, Smart" ?>Click <?rh-cbt_end ?></p>
<?rh-cbt_start condition="Online, Print, Smart" ?><div align="right">
<img alt="add_attachments.png" id="image9" src="add_attachments.png"
style="margin-bottom: -3.000pt; margin-left: 1.500pt; margin-right: 0.882pt;"
width="18" height="21" border="0" />
</div><?rh-cbt_end ?>
<p class="Lettered"><?rh-cbt_start condition="Online, Print, Smart" ?> <?rh-cbt_end ?><?rh-cbt_start condition="Online, Print, Smart" ?>(Add Attachment).<?rh-cbt_end ?></p></li>
Appreciate any ideas or CSS suggestions to sort this out.
Thanks!

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