Alt text reverted to textfield (was text area)

Alt text has slipped back and is now truncating captions. Change from textfield to textarea was made in 2009 with version 6.x-1.0-beta2 http://drupal.org/node/244600/release

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 $element['imce_widget_container']['imceimage_alt'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',

Thanks!