Problems Formating Non-bulletied lines below a below

I frequently need to have a bullet with text underneath it as in...
[*] Identify the four stages of Development
Add multiple lines of text here directly underneath the bulleted text

Basically adding comments or text underneath a bullet.

But for whatever *FRIGGING* reason Word 2007 will not let me format the text
the way I want it. Specficially, instead of having single spacing, Word
forces double spacing between the bulleted line and the non-bulleted line. I
have tried to set the line spacing along with playing with the DO NOT ADD
SPACE BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS OF THE SAME STYLE option. But I *cannot* get Word
to do anything other than double space betwen the bullet and non-bullet. As
in...
[*] Identify the four stages of Development

Add multiple lines of text here directly underneath the bulleted text