Aligning prompts in 10g R2?

We have a standard that we right align our prompts on vertically stacked text items. I have noticed that if I right align my prompts in 10g R2 (I'm upgrading some forms from 3.0) that they appear right aligned in on the Canvas, but when I run the form I sometimes get a ragged edge. I'm using MS Sans Serif as the font. Is there a way to get things to align properly when the form runs or is this something I just have to live with?

I want to update this thread:
I have found a way to get prompts to left-align BOTH in Forms 6i and 10g R2. I set the Prompt Attachment Edge property to "Top", and then moved the prompt horizontally to the left of the item (as if the Prompt Attachment Edge = "Start"). With multiple text items left-aligned in a column vertically, I was able to get the prompts to remain left-aligned in a perfectly straight vertical column.
This also helped when converting between Client/Server and web forms in the vertical alignment of the prompt. When using Prompt Attachment Edge = "Start", the prompts drop a pixel or two when moving to the web. But when using Prompt Attachment Edge property = "Top", I did not see the vertical change.
This is a non-intuitive workaround, but it seems to work ok. When prompts are set this way, both the Prompt Attachment Offset and the Prompt Alignment Offset properties had negative values.

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