LOLLLLLLL!!!
Well, I certainly don't want to give you more headaches (at least you understand what I am going through). Trying hard to get things as simple as possible, but those text boxes + tags being potentially mixed up are definitely a pain...
I have to use those tags as some translation software don't enable the user to comment anything so far, so those tags are a trick users found to get comments through.
BTW, if you want to work with "normal strings", it would work exactly the same way, as those tags do appear as strings in Word, and not like HTML tags!

Anyway, I'll try to work from the few good tips you gave me, and we will see how things go... Thanks so much for your help!