Bulleted list, type breaking to next line

I'm working in ID CS3. I set up a nested style sheet for a bulleted list. However, the type is breaking too soon--there is still space on the line for more text, but it is breaking it. When I backspace the type trying to bring it up, it will do it, but when I add a word space back in, it jumps down to the next line.
It is not doing this with other styles I have set up. I tried changing the style to Adobe Single-line composer, but that didn't help.
(p.s. I'm a long-time Quark user who has been migrating over to InDesign)

Welcome to the paragraph composer. InDesign's text composition engine is
far more advanced than XPress'. It looks at the entire paragraph.
You can turn it off, but I don't advise it. Instead, if you need words
to stay together, use a no break attribute (create a character style for
it).
You say it's off, but there's no way it would be acting that way if it
were. Look in the paragraph panel and the paragraph styles.
Bob

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'To: ' || v_to || CRLF ||
'Cc: ' || v_cc || CRLF ||
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'Content-Type: multipart/mixed;'||CRLF ||
' boundary="-----SECBOUND"'||CRLF||
CRLF ||'-------SECBOUND'|| CRLF ||
'Content-Type: text/plain;'|| CRLF ||
'Content-Transfer_Encoding: 7bit'|| CRLF ||
CRLF ||v_body|| CRLF;     -- Message body
utl_smtp.write_data(v_smtp_connection,v_msg_line);
v_msg_line:='-------SECBOUND'|| CRLF ||
'Content-Type: application/octet-stream;'|| CRLF ||
'Content-Type: text/plain;'|| CRLF ||
'name="pending_pr_summry.txt"'|| CRLF ||
'Content-Transfer_Encoding: 8bit'|| CRLF ||
'Content-Disposition: attachment;'|| CRLF ||
' filename="pending_pr_summry.txt"'|| CRLF || CRLF;     -- Content of attachment
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MAT/250607 | 2| 1|NMDCJ | 6001| 100005580| 0109020002|TMT Bar 10 mm Fe 415 IS:1786 | 1500|kg | 29-DEC-2012| 19-dec-2012
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I am now wondering about a possible solution. It would be one hell of a challenge for me to figure out how to code it, but I at least need to figure out the theory first, then I'll try to figure out how to code it.
Again, the issue at hand is preventing column breaks for the "listing" style in the following example. Please note, the number of "listing" lines varies. If the following two entries (in a long list of similar entries) were to be near the end of a column, I'm trying to cause the flow of text to break only before a county style, or a town style (if it's not the first town in the county). Basically, no breaks in the middle of listings.
Countyland <styled "county">
Utopiatown <styled "town">
46 Appletree Lane ...... $500,000 <styled "listing">
Sold by: Some Guy   <styled "listing">
Bought by: Other Guy <styled "listing">
Mortgage: This Bank <styled "listing">
Date: 12/14/11 <styled "listing">
Dystopia Village <styled "town">
47 Orangeplant Road ...... $400,000 <styled "listing">
Sold by: Some Guy   <styled "listing">
Bought by: Other Guy <styled "listing">
Mortgage: This Bank <styled "listing">
Date: 12/14/11 <styled "listing">
Naomi previously suggested messing with the "keep options" in the styles. This will solve the issue of preventing breaks before listing details start. But it won't help in keeping listing details from breaking, since the number of lines can vary.
I'm now thinking ... might it be possible to have a script search all copy, looking for the last line of listings, and then apply a second listing style with a different keep option setting? The "normal listing" style would "keep next 1 line". The "last listing" style would not, therefore, allowing a break.
Here's a map of what I'm thinking: (bear with me on the terrible syntax, this is just for illustrative purposes)
listingNormal has keep with next 1 line applied
listingBreak does not keep with next line
if currentLineStyle == listingNormal
AND
style of next line != listingNormal {
currentLineStyle = listingBreak
Does this make sense? If so, does this sound feasible?
Thanks any and all.
~Nate

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I'm having this problem where the page number for my item in the table of contents appears on the next line instead of allt he way to the right on the same line. Example:
Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
instead of
Chapter 1 . . . . . . . . . . . .4
A solution has already been posted, but it won't work for me:
"This is simple to solve. Select the TOC entry and show the text inspector. There press the "Tab" button for the tabulator seetings. At the bottom is a list of tab stops. Select the last one with a double click and set the number to a slight lower number then the width of your TOC area is. Make sure the tab stop is for right aligning by activating the button on the right side of the tab stop list (but I think it is already). Do that for all TOC levels and don't forget to save the styles." -Frank
When I try to do this, I type my desired tab stop in (5 in, incidentally) and then as soon as I click outside the field it reverts to the default, which is the full width of my column.
Anyone know why this might be? Thank you!

Just to be clear, are you trying to set you tab stop at the 5 inch mark? What is your left margin setting? I believe the tab setting is the distance from the left margin, not the actual point along the paper width. Since you said in an earlier post that you are working on a booklet, I thought perhaps your left margin + 5 may be exceeding the allowable width inside your margins.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Bulleted list, type breaking to next line

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