HTML woes

I do not understand why the post below this one is a bulleted list instead of numbered list. I did everything right to make a numbered list. I double-checked the tags for making numbered lists in HTML. And in the "Preview" window on Blogger, the list below is, in fact, a numbered list. And yet. There it is, bulleted.

In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter, and I have to let it go because I cannot spend the rest of the day fruitlessly trying to correct something that can't be corrected. But still. It rankles.

I feel the same way when my checkbook is off by thirteen cents. On the one hand, who cares. On the other hand, why doesn't it balance, dammit!