Memo field truncating on textarea form field

Greetings

I have a helpdesk app in which the user enters the issue on a form (memo field) and the tech enters their solution (another memo field).

I can't get the entire text that is in the DB to display on the tech's work form.

I tried: 

1) UPDATE main_helpdesk

       SET q_description = <cfqueryparam value="#Form.q_description#" cfsqltype="cf_sql_longvarchar" />

on the action page,

2) setting Unicode Compression to "no" in memo field properties in the DB (Access 2007 for now- SQLSever soon).

3) querying the memo fields separately from the main query:

SELECT queue_ID, q_description, q_tech_resolution

FROM main_helpdesk

WHERE queue_ID = #URL.queue_ID#

No luck as yet.....

Thanks for any solution to this.

sakonnetweb