Posting Problem

Hello I have been a happy wordpress user for quite a while now but there has been one problem bugging me across multiple versions of wordpress. I can not write a post in an offline editor, such as Windows Live Writer, and have the formatting apply to the post once it is posted to my blog.

Example: Instead of posting a link to abc.com I will get a href=”abc.com”abc.com/a

The entire post shows up without any of the brackets needed for html to recognize the link. I have tired multiple garden variates of offline software too and that has not resolved the situation. If anyone can help me resolve this situation I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks