List Maker html formatting errors

Greetings,

I am new to EE and needing to incorporate <ul>s. I have installed List Maker and have tried it two different ways (applied around custom field textareas), each causing problems. Here are my two attempts and the resulting problematic source code.

1. Straight up List Maker:

List Maker template code:

[color=blue]{exp:list_maker}
  {customfield}
{/exp:list_maker}[/color]

Entering with carriage returns results in the following source code, which includes excess list items plus a stray paragraph tag:

 <span style="color:red;"><ul class="list">
    <li>item 1</li>
    <li>

</li> <li>item 2</li> <li> </li> <li>item 3</li> <li></li> </ul> 2. Modified List Maker:

List Maker template code:

 [color=blue]{exp:list_maker type="ul" separator="," id="summaryList" class="list"}
{customfield}
{/exp:list_maker}[/color]

Entering items separated with commas has better results, but there is still a stray paragraph tag:

<ul id=”summaryList” class=”list”> <li>item 1</li> <li> item 2</li> <li> item 3 </li> </ul>

Is there a way to either make List Maker work as intended using carriage returns, or with commas without the paragraph tag added in?

THANKS for any assitance!