I'm toying with starting a new library science focused blog (not that I keep up with the blog I already have, but hey, that's the thing about blogs, right? they're so easy to start), and it's going to be in WordPress, even though I'm still having a little trouble with the learning curve on navigating their dashboard. Nice to know they have an easy footnote feature, since library science and footnotes seem to go together so nicely.
If I'm reading this right, you're telling me that as long as I don't switch back into compose mode before I hit publish, blogger (normally) won't do that %^*&(@# thing where it &^^%#%#$ with my code? Awesome! I never even thought to try that, because I'm so used to switching back and forth between the two views. That's what's been keeping me from using footnotes, because the only work around I had figured out was to publish the post and then go back and correct the code with the permanent url for the post, which I generally didn't consider to be worth the hassle.
Thanks for simplifying my life with the handy grab code, too. I may have to go draft a footnote-laden post now, just to celebrate how easy you've made it. Hooray!