In case anyone else is trying to sort this, I'll post my work-around.
Apparently the tag for bullets isn't treated like text. I didn't know that, not having any coding experience. What I've done is get rid of the automatic bullet structure and enter it as text. So instead of tagging it as a bullet, I manually spaced it in to line up with the bullet indent, then I inserted the bullet symbol from the special characters list, then added a couple more spaces.
Of course if my bullet text gets long, the wrap is going to be wonky because it's not a true hanging indent. And the bullet character is smaller than the standard bullet, but when I try to change the text size on that character alone, it respaces my lines with enough space to accommodate the larger text. (Effectively messing up my paragraph style.) So lesser of two evils is to have a smaller bullet.