Probs with drop-down text in Word doc

I'd like to include drop-down text in my printed
documentation, but I'm having problems making it work. I have lots
of i-frames in my Webhelp project and, for some reason, they all
seem to have carriage returns in them. When I turn on the "include
drop-down text" in my printed doc options, these carriage returns
wreak havoc on my formatting.
I've tried removing them from the TrueCode, but they just
re-generate. I've also thought about writing a macro in Word to
remove them, but I can't think of a way to ensure it is consisent.
And, I have numerous long documents that will be generated from
this project, so it is not feasible to remove them manually.
I'd really like to use the drop-down text functionality for
my printed docs. Short of turning of the drop-down text, using
conditional tags, and duplicating text , I don't know how. Any
ideas?
BTW, I'm using RoboHelp X5.

Based on the information I received from Peter Grainge, I completed the following steps.  The Bulleted-List issue was fixed, but not the numbered-lists.
1.        Make sure your RoboHelp project is not opened.
2.        Open up the default.css style sheet for your project in Notepad.
3.        Search for the following text:
P.Numbered-List {
   list-style: decimal;
   text-indent: -;
   margin-left: 0pt;
4.        Replace with the following text:
/*P.Numbered-List {
   list-style: decimal;
   text-indent: -;
   margin-left: 0pt;
5.        Search for the following text:
P.Bulleted-List {
   list-style: disc;
   margin-left: -6pt;
6.        Replace with the following text:
/*P.Bulleted-List {
   list-style: disc;
   margin-left: -6pt;
7.        Open up your RoboHelp Project
8.        Go to Edit : Find and Replace Files
9.        Search for:  <li><p class="Bulleted-List">
10.     Replace with: <li class="Bulleted-List"><p>
11.     Now do another search and replace.
12.     Search for: <li><p class="Numbered-List">
13.     Replace with: <li class="Numbered-List"><p>
14.     Remove any extra lines that appear at the end of the drop-down text.

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