Saving User Settings to DB

All,

So I am trying to save the user settings of an UltraWinTree to a CLOB field in the DB. I used the example in http://communities.progress.com/pcom/message/84719 and this works fine for saving Grids, Explorer Bars etc but with TreeView it fails. The treeview has quite a few nodes. When I run the code it fails on the last line below with the error msg: Attempt to exceed maximum size for a CHARACTER variable (9324). I checked the CODE-PAGE and it is correct. If I remove a node or two from the TreeView to make the overall XML smaller it works fine. I'm hitting a limit here but don't know why. Using 10.2B.

DEFINE VARIABLE cXML AS LONGCHAR                      NO-UNDO.

DEFINE VARIABLE ms    AS System.IO.MemoryStream  NO-UNDO.

DEFINE VARIABLE obj1  AS System.Text.UTF8Encoding NO-UNDO.

ms = NEW System.IO.MemoryStream().

UltraTree1:SaveAsXml(ms).

obj1 = NEW System.IO.MemoryStream().

cXML = obj1:GetString(ms:ToArray()).

Thanks,

Brad