AS3, htmlText, bold b throwing of letter spacing. letters crashing into each other.

I have an htmlText field that holds a few paragraphs of text that is pulled from an xml file. There are <b> bold tags within the xml node.
When a section of bold text is in the middle of normal text, the normal text will crash into the beginning & end of the bold text, see pic:
I'm assuming that the bold text and the regular text have different letter spacing so I removed the ".letterSpacing = .2;" from the font declaration in order to let the text render at it's normal letter spacing. That helped a little in making the crashing a little less but it hasn't cleared it up completely. Also, depending on the font size, the letter crashing acts differently.
Is there a way to better control the letter spacing of bold text next to normal text in a dynamic text field?
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Zak

I'm going to try using CSS with my dynamic textfield to see if this solves the letter spacing issue. Has anyone used CSS in dyanmic text field to better control the spacing between bolded & normal text?
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