More help holy goodness., It's a-me Skt! Options

[skt]

So.

I finally "skinned" myspace, and I'm well semi happy with the results.
However.

In my "content" whenever I try to define a certain style of font, it works until I use this:
<p>
And then it goes back to default.
So say I go:
<content blah blah blah> my name is scott <====first half is georgia
<p>
i'm a big dumb, i'm teh total lame <======this half is arial.

i didn't realize how rusty at html i was, could anyone help?