Formatting issue with bottom featured box (hpbottom)

[digitalvision]

Hey all...

So I've run into a sticky wicket. Everything's coming together just great for the site I'm building off of Lifestyle.. but I changed it so that the featured bottom text is the main site text.

But, no matter what I seem to try, the bottom loses formatting from the post that feeds it, especially the double-spaced line breaks that work everywhere else (links, bold, etc all seem to work fine, though).

How do I get double line breaks like a normal post or page? Here's a link to the test site and a code snippet of the hpbottom div in case it helps. Thanks for helping out!

http://www.iterotext.com.php5-4.websitetestlink.com/

<div class="hpbottom">
					
				<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=3&showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
				<?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "hpbottom", true) ): ?><?php else: ?><?php endif; ?>				
			  <h5><?php the_title(); ?></h5>
				<?php the_content(); ?>
					
				<div style="border-bottom:1px dotted #2255AA; margin-bottom:10px; padding:0px 0px 10px 0px; clear:both;"></div>
					
				<?php endwhile; ?>