Strange Textarea Behavior

I have been scratching my head on this for weeks. It seems that when I type text into a textarea box, then store it in a fox memo field, all the text is in one long string. If I were to type in the following:

1fsdfdsfsdfdsf

2sdfsfsdfdsfdsfs

3dsfsdfsdsdfsdf

4sdfsdsdfsd fsdds dfsdf

5dsdsf

It is saved in the memo field as:

1fsdfdsfsdfdsf 2sdfsfsdfdsfdsfs 3dsfsdfsdsdfsdf 4sdfsdsdfsd fsdds dfsdf 5dsdsf

Here is the code:

<%
LOCAL CID, CFIRST, CLAST, CEMAIL, CTELE, CNEWSLET, CNOTES

IF !USED('contact')
USE data/djm!contact NODATA SHARED IN 0
ENDIF
SELECT contact
SET EXACT ON

M.CNOTES = ""
%>

<%
IF Request.FormCount("btnchoice") > 0
M.CNOTES = Request.Form('CNOTES')

SELECT contact
APPEND BLANK
REPLACE CNOTES WITH M.CNOTES

<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><B>Message</B></FONT>

     </TD>
     <TD CLASS=pbsfields VALIGN="MIDDLE">
      <TEXTAREA name="CNOTES" rows=8 cols=80 WRAP="VIRTUAL" ALIGN="TOP"> <%=(M.CNOTES)%></TEXTAREA>
     </TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
     <TD CLASS=PBSfields>

<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><B>Choose</B></FONT>

     </TD>
     <TD CLASS=pbsfields1 VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="left">
      <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT NAME=btnchoice VALUE="Send">
     </TD>
    </TR>
   </TABLE>
   </FORM>
  </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

Anyone have an idea why all thetext is concatenated into one long paragraph?

Thanks much,

Joe