Strange line breaks in Apple Mail

OK, first of all, I'm not talking about quoted text (f=f or format=flowed), at least I don't "think* I am.
I keep encountering strange, unpredictable extra line breaks - or at other times the lack thereof - when composing email. I can't see a pattern to it, very frustrating, so I think the problem only occurs when I reply to or forward someone else's email, not starting fresh.
When I reply to an email - and even if I Select All text and remove all quoting (Option-Command-' as many times as necessary), I often see linespacing too tall between some lines. Even if I concatenate the two sentences and enter my own carriage return, there still is too much space between the lines. Then after I send the email and look at the message from my Sent box, there is no line break whatsoever where I thought I forced one. Or other times there are multiple linebreaks. Aaarrgghh!
So my workaround has been to copy & paste my bodytext into Apple TextEdit, then turn right around and copy it from there and paste it into a brand new email message. (If I delete all the text from my original email reply and paste it there, sometimes the weird line breaks still occur.)
It doesn't seem to matter whether I change my offending email reply or forward message from Rich Text to Plain Text; the problem still occurs.
Is there some Mail preference setting I can change to avoid this convoluted and infuriating procedure?

Bump.
Are these phantom extra line breaks and vanishing line breaks not occurring to anyone else?
In Mail Preferences > Composing > Responding > Quote the text of the original message
...I tried disabling (unchecking) it, but it doesn't make much difference. Again, the problems occur in the body of a
Message > Reply
...not a newly-created message. I've even pasted the body text into TextWrangler and done a "Zap Gremlins" and "Remove Line Breaks," but after I paste it back into Mail and reset my line breaks like I want, I still get extra and/or removed line endings when I review my sent message.

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To save confusion and to all those people who think I am using the same email address for everything, here they are.
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[email protected] currently exists as an IMAP account which works but something I would rather not have.
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If I now get flooded with spam, I know where it's come from.
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