Workflow Issue: How to "deformat" text without losing links?
noodle: i like the javascript rich text editor idea.you could also go with a basic regex removal of everything that isn't 'useful'.  just strip out all tags except a/i/b/u and strip out all 'style="*"'.since its drupal and all, its in php, so this is perhaps in order:  http://us2.php.net/strip-tags