Hey TheSolarGuys,
Sorry I made the last post a little too soon. I may have found you a workaround.
In the advanced options for the text box, you can choose to make the textbox an HTML editor. This will allow him to save the spaces. What's happening is that the regular textbox doesn't automatically put the HTML in the field, so the result is truncated text saved to the field. If you makes the textbox an HTML editor, this will put the HTML tags for spacing in the field so that it shows with spaces on a grid or when viewing onscreen.
Hope this helps
-- Loi