Form - Formatting Text Field

Can't find anything on this in the posts that I've archived since 
subscribing to this list; ditto Google.

Migration from Access.  Access memo field (may have been text field; 
don't remember) to MySQL text field.  Form formatting for that field in 
Rekall yields text centered vertically and right aligned regardless of 
settings in Properties.  I've put a lot of work into getting this 
(first of several) databases set up for MySQL/Rekall, but this looks to 
be a dealbreaker unless there is a solution.  This is pretty basic 
stuff for forms; I'm not asking for rocket science. :)  What am I 
missing, here?

Second Issue:  I have enough data in some records in this field to make 
for quite a few lines, and it's all coming out as one line.  I see a 
MySQL text field should be good for someting like 64k bytes; that would 
seem pretty unreadable if it were one huge line.  How can I get it to 
wrap, and for paragraph seperation how do I get hard returns?