Newbie question: no italics in footnotes

First off, thanks to all who post help on the forums-- you have already helped me a great deal in getting started with FM!

I bought FM 8 (running 8.04 on XP via Parallels on my Macbook) in order to convert FM docs to HTML. Thanks to your help, I have solved most of the initial problems I have encountered. However, one issue that I have is that italics tags don't appear in the html version of my documents. This issue surfaces in the footnotes of the documents.

I'm using the save-as command on the file menu. My footnotes appear after the main text (which, for my purposes, is great) but, although things like small-caps tags appear when appropriate, italics seem to have disappeared.

I tried XML to see if the problem carried over and it did the same thing. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Why would this be particularly a problem in the footnotes? I do notice an asterisk by the name of other paragraph tags in the document. Does this mean that the styles like italics are turned on in those tags?

Thanks,
Jeremy