Empty paragraph tags

Hi,

Following is a snippet of a HTML template I'm using:

<perch:repeater id="introduction" label="Introductory Paragraphs">
<perch:if exists="intro"><p><perch:content id="intro" type="textarea" label="Introductory Paragraph" required="true" title="true" textile="true" /></p>
</perch:if>
</perch:repeater>

and the PHP:

div class="content">
<h2>Description</h2>
<?php perch_content('Description'); ?>

</div>

For some reason there is an empty paragraph element before and after when the <?php perch_content('Description'); ?> is injected.

I'm guessing the problem could be allowempty="true" being used on type="select" above or below a particular section of a template.

Is there any way to not have to select an item from a list?

Cheers