--- wordpress_migrate.pages.inc.orig	2011-10-02 12:27:58.000000000 -0700
+++ wordpress_migrate.pages.inc	2011-10-27 21:44:14.000000000 -0700
@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ function wordpress_migrate_import_form_s
     // Fix unencoded ampersands
     $wxr_string = str_replace('&', '&', $wxr_string);
     $wxr_string = str_replace('&', '&', $wxr_string);
+    
+//  2011-10-27, BDP.    in node bodies was ending up as  
+    $wxr_string = str_replace(' ', ' ', $wxr_string);
+//  End BDP change.
+
     file_put_contents($destination, $wxr_string);
     try {
       $blog = wordpress_migrate_blog($destination);