I changed the column widths when I merged the changes from sloanspace
and they increased them there because they were too small.  I did not 
write an upgrade for it since it did not look to me like you could write an upgrade for it (and because I am a bad bad man).
It's all there in black and white in the cvs log.
revision 1.15
date: 2002/09/16 21:52:42;  author: jeffd;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
increase field sizes (from sloan)
I think people can upgrade happily from 4.5 to 4.6 (or could if there
were more upgrade scripts) without changing these field widths and I 
am curious why you think it causes things to choke Jon.  
In the future I will try to post something to the bboards before 
I make a change like that.