I Hate WordPress - I do, I do!

I spent the last two and a bit hours doing a really nice layout of all the Booker Prize winners, complete with images, and links to the books I had read, as well as a massive red cross against the books I had read, but not reviewed. I did the whole thing in HTML, as opposed to using the "Visual" tab, as I thought it would be easier and quicker, and HTML gives me a tad more control over what I'm doing. Throughout, I kept previewing my changes, to make sure there were no syntax errors. And then - then I publish it, and guess what?! Wordpress decides to strip out all the images and just leave a table of years, with links, and nothing else! :( Argh! I'm not a happy bunny, and I'll need to re-do this... and, it looked so nice as well! I'm going to bed, and crying myself to sleep. I expect this to happen to me five days a week at work - when I code something, and it doesn't quite do what it's supposed to. But here, at home, as my Sunday draws to a close - now, that's just wrong on so many levels!