I can confirm that his console is NOT corrupt. The same exact thing is
happening with me.

I am unable to publish a single-line SPF record as it is too long. You
can copy and paste and, yet is gets the scroll bar at the bottom and
looks like it is going to work perfectly, BUT once you save it, close
it and reopen it IT IS TRUNCATED EVERY TIME. Nice feature. This goes
for Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 (with or without SP1).

Looks like we are stuck with multiple records and multiple "includes"
to get this thing working.

"you would think someone would actually test this stuff before rolling
it out"