I wasn't able to work through the resize-in-middle-of-loading problem, but I was able to work around it by having the text box change locations instead of sizes.
I am uploading the file here so that Reflection Rip can put the script change to use as soon as possible in his recently-uploaded mod.
Here is my scrollbar'd version. Reflection Rip's scroll-less version is available here:
http://www.eq2interface.com/download...fo.php?id=3381
Enjoy.