Out damn italics!
While viewing the Country Store on some other PC's, I was struck by how poorly italics were rendered. Yes, there are options for font smoothing (particularly on Windows XP) that make the rendition closer to what I see on my main machine, but I hate web sites that say "for optimum viewing, change your settings......". So no more de facto italics for quoted material - just the indentation. Until I change my mind again.