Crystal Reports: Large Values

Ok, I've used Crystal Reports for about 10 minutes now and I already hate it. Too much work to pass a value to a parameter.

Anyways, I am forced to use it for this project, but I found out the hard way that you can only pass 254 characters to a discrete parameter. I have a textbox with about 400 lines I need to do a report on. Anyone have any ideas on how I can get that data to the report?

I can't use word or any other remoting method, it needs to be a contained app.

Thanks!!

could you possibly break it into a couple of strings, or textboxes, or whatever, and then combine them again after u pass them? (if that's a stupid suggestion don't flame me; i don't know how to use crystal reports)