in fairness the old XP/Server 2003 notepad would frequently freak out on me and suddenly remove all <CR> (or <LF>, I don't really know) from a file I was editing (not a unix or mac generated file, so it was not a <CR><LF> issue.) That would force me to quit and reload the file and start my edits over again. This was almost always on servers, so I never bothered to find a fix or workaround, but it made me never trust notepad. So old notepad sucked, and apparently new notepad sucks.