Format mask problem

Greetings,
I am trying to display a zero in various fields. In text item fields, as soon as I enter a 0 and tab or click out of it, the 0 disappears. It's corresponding display item field also displays nothing as well.
I have the format mask set up as B99,999,990 with a data type of Rmoney. What can I do to get a 0 to appear without specifying a default value? The filed needs to be capable of having a NULL value as well.
Thank you

I'm using this sort of format mask:
fmS99g999g999g999g999
for number item type.
.

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