Dynamic Text Formting issue

I have two dynamic text fields the give the apearance of
wrapping text around a photo. The text has been set up to load each
text field and appear to smoothly wrap and look like one continued
display. It work on the computer I am created it on...When loaded
on other computers either some of the content in the first field is
lost or the first field end sooner than is expected giving a choppy
look. I cannot use one field and set it up as html (That would be
to easy...clients never want easy).
Is there some way to assure that every computer displays the
text the same way???

You probably need to include the instance name of the movie
clip in your code.
instancenameofyourmovieclip.loadVariables("content.txt",0);

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