>Has anybody else run into this, and if so do you know of a way to work around it? I'd like to use ALINES and then APPEND FROM ARRAY.

Yep, always use a CRLF instead of just a CR. I hit this while doing mhHTMLCode:

lcString = 'mikes' + chr(13) + chr(13) + 'test'
alines(aA, lcString)

2 elements, Mikes and Test

lcString = 'mikes' + chr(13) + chr(10) + chr(13) + chr(10) + 'test'
alines(aA, lcString)

3 elements, Mikes, [blank], and Test. Is that what you need?