Styling bullets in text using InDesign's bullets

Having a problem with aligning bulleted lists that have multiple lines.
What I want is the text to align but I also need the bullets to stay within the text.
I tried changing "left indent" and "first line indent" but no result (see the attachment).
Any help would be awesome.

Change Text After to Tab ^t

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Use Type menu>Tabs
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Hi,
I haven't seen this problem written up anywhere but I am
having problems with my text formatting differently in text boxes
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>>> Daniel Flavin <[email protected]> 11/04/09 5:58 PM >>>
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The copier engine and RIP are in charge of the imposition and duplexing from your single page file and should be available from any program ie: Word, Open Office, Acrobat. Could you print a 8 page file from any other program and have the features available?
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