I guess I'm unclear on how much of a difference it makes. I'm not asking Kix to interpret that path at all, or asking it to do anything with the file / folder the path points to. That's mearly a data-string that I'm asking kix to input into a field.

I realize it's short file name format, and looks odd. But when a new user profile is generated on the system, that's the format that windows would create that value as. So I'm leaning twoards sticking with it.