Block of text to fill screen... starts in middle not top

I am trying to create a text-generator clip that includes a lot of copyright/credits info, and I want to fill the screen with it, top to bottom, left to right. When I enter all the txt in a text generator (Controls), and then look at the Video display, the top line of text is starting in the MIDDLE of the screen and I cannot move the bottom crop bar bigger.
HOW do I fill a screen with text? I want to simply fade in - fade out on a large block of text that "has to be there."
FCP 4.5
Dual 1 gig G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Moving the center raises the first line of text... that would work, if all my text could fit in the lower half of a frame...
The problem is that I cannot start with text anywhere in the top half of a the frame--that I know of.
Similarly, if I enter text that falls onto two lines, the first line is centere vertically, while the second sits below it. If I want both lines centeres, I have to MOVE the center of the frame. It doesn;t make sense to me that there is not a way to vertically center EVREYTHING I type.

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