Hi Dayna,
I think I know what you are trying to do. I posted some advice to someone a month or so ago where he wanted the check boxes to indicate the items selected by the person filling the form out and then having a summary of what they checked. The best way to do that is going to be with views and doing some true/false tests on the check box. And as Matt said using an expression box to display the text fields is going to look better for display and or printing out.
Here is the thread on my suggestions, feel free to post back with any questions, I think I have the InfoPath file still (the sample I made) and can email it to you if you want.
http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1985