Do you have any html in there?
If you have html with a
<BR>
and then a space on the line below.
AW converts teh space into a <BR> That you cant see and you get 2 of them.

That is probly where all the white space is coming from.
I use to html all my listing before I got AW and now I use very little. AW turns simple txt into html for you and it is so much easier.