Scott, thanks for your advice regarding the crashing issue. Deleting the registry folder has fixed it (at the relatively small price of 5 minutes re-entering the details of the various FTP servers).
However, I don't feel we're much further forward with the problem of unwanted line breaks when a page is viewed on some systems. It seems that things have got better on the Macs, but instead we have problems on some Windows PCs that we didn't have before. There is no pattern that I can discern: every software and hardware combination seems to give a different result. By way of illustration, I'm attaching two files. They show the same page, viewed using the same Browser (Chrome) and the same operating system (Windows XP), and both machines have the right font loaded. The only difference is that one machine is a laptop and the other is a PC with a big monitor, for which large fonts have been selected in the Windows View settings. In the VSD, the text box containing the words "Contact form" extends for almost the entire width of the page. So it should be wide enough to accommodate text 3 or 4 times as big without needing a line break, yet a break appears between "Contact" and "form" on the PC with the big monitor.
I have gone back to the "ordinary" version of the VSD pending resolution of these problems. I appreciate that you are doing your best. And I want to stick with CoffeeCup if at all possible (cost and pleasure of supporting a small entrepreneur like myself). However, this issue has serious implications for my willingness to stick with you, because even if I look at a site on 5 PCs and it's good on all of them, I can't be sure that it won't look a mess on number 6.