marga - as I've been waiting for a reply from someone at Empirisoft, I've come up with a work around that's time consuming, but working for me (and I need to get this task programmed ASAP....ugh)
Instead of text files, I've been just entering the text directly into DirectRT with the ~ symbol...I'm able to move text vertically that way (with the Loc values)....to move things horizontally, I've been adding "space" characters to the left or right of my stimulus, which "pushes" my stim closer to where I'd actually like it to be on the screen...