Feed code error

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  catherineturner · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 1:11 pm

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  When I or a friend try to go to the feed for my blog
  http://catherineturner.wordpress.com/feed/
  I get feed code error in Internet Explorer, and just no content in Firefox. IE says:
  An invalid character was found in text content.
  Line: 49 Character: 4

  <p></p>

  This happened a couple of weeks ago and just seemed to resolve itself and now has happened again. What’s going wrong? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 4:57 pm

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  I checked the feed validator and you need to open a post and delete <p></p> from it.
  See here > http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcatherineturner.wordpress.com%2Ffeed

  Go to Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”

  Now, starting with your latest post, open it in the editor, make one minor change such as adding a space and then deleting it, and then click “Update Post.” Check your blog and see if it is back to normal.

  If you have been copying and pasting text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here so you know how to do this correctly in the future. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

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  timethief · Member · Aug 11, 2011 at 5:00 pm

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  If the blog does not immediately revert to “normal” in your feed display when you follow the process above, you will need to work backwards form post to post until you find the one with the invalid HTML in it. Check your blog again and see if it is back to normal. If it’s still “messed up” then open the next post and do the same thing post by post until it goes back to normal.