I tried setting it to html default here: Admin->Configuration->Customer Details->Customer Default Email Preference
On tpl_subscribe.php I commented out
PHP Code:
// if(EMAIL_USE_HTML == 'true') {
// $content .= ' <br /> <label>' . zen_draw_radio_field('email_format', 'HTML', true) . ENTRY_EMAIL_HTML_DISPLAY . '</label>';
// $content .= ' <label style="white-space:nowrap">' . zen_draw_radio_field('email_format', 'TEXT', false) . ENTRY_EMAIL_TEXT_DISPLAY . '</label>';
// }
The radio bullet options no longer show on the sidebox like I want, but the user is subscribed as text instead of html.