>OK, just out of curiousity, what is the largest ntext value that you have? You can use the DATALENGTH() return the amount of data in a column:
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I've tried to run this query:

SELECT MAX(DATALENGTH(textcolumn)) FROM thetable

And got error message:

Server: Msg 7102, Level 20, State 99, Line 1
SQL Server Internal Error. Text manager cannot continue with current statement.

Connection Broken