Chuck,
I upgraded to 4.2, the first thing I noticed was that all of my old articles were not displaying correctly, a bunch of HTML was showing up even though HTML was NOT turned on for my older articles. Ok no problem, went to the Admin panel and turned on HTML in the article body (products as you'd call it) and now those old articles show up fine. However, when I go to submit a new article it is inserting a <p> at the begging and </p> at the end. Any idea how to get rid of this showing up? Here is a quick sample to show you what I mean:
Message - My Articles