j_ferguson: Thanks for your suggestions, that’s what I eventually discovered.
The minor issue with this approach is that it changes the font of that field universally. The initial problem only existed on browse control. Everywhere else, it was as good as it could be. After making this change, while it fixed the browse displaying issue, it also changed the default font in all other places which is not as nice as it use to be. Not such a big deal and I guess i can live with it.
Thanks for your help indeed.