Thanks for the post!

The only reason I was not going to use a Text column was because of the limited ability to search the column without having to use FTS....

I think I may have found my answer regarding searching text columns using SQL FTS (Full Text Search).

Can anyone tell my what kind of performance hit the server would take...

The only reason the fields can't be broken into multiple columns is because the users peform many ad-hoc queries/reports and they don't want to have to remember to query multiple...