Boris Title 3D- Good Grief!

I'm revising a bunch of simple 2-line lower third subtitles that were done in Title 3D. The problem I'm having is that there seems to be no rhyme or reason to getting the titles consistently in the same spot regarding left to right.
I'd like to keep them within the titlesafe area, but it seems no matter how I set up the margin, wordwrap and page width settings it always goes offscreen unless I add some arbitrary spaces before and/or after my text.
Anybody experience this?
I must say, this isn't encouraging me to buy a full Boris package anytime soon! It also doesn't help that there's no mention of this beast in the manuals either. Like they deliberately wanted to avoid saying anything!

for max quality, check the "raterize continuously box.
the wrap check box is the key to getting them stay put when you edit a new instance. It took me a long time to figure that one out.
Make sure to double and triple-check all these tiels when you master or export your finished piece. Boris is infamous for unpleasant surprises at the output stage of your project.

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