I solved the problem.
For whatever reason using this template, the spacing between the lines of text does not change when you change the font size.So, I used JCE to put a DIV tag (<div style="line-height: 150%;">) in to increase spacing to 150% when I increased the size of the text. I do use other templates and i do not recall having to do this 150% trick. Is there a default spacing that you use that makes a 12 or 14 point size need a trick like this because the default is so small? WHen I do not use the div with mycommunity, and I change the font size via the editor, JCE, the type is on top of the next line with lousy spacing.
Anyway, I had not placed the </div> at the end of the article and Joomla 1.7 or the MyCommunity template code or whatever displayed it in the distorted fashion as the opening div had not been closed.
If you can advise on how to change the font size without having to add a <div style="line-height: 150%;"> and a </div> in each article to change the line spacing, that would be nice!