Problems Deleting Unwanted Output from ZoneCharacters

v16/VS2008/C#

I figured out how to delete unwanted chars from zoneCharacters collection after doing OCR on an IOcrDocument. However, now that I can remove zone characters I have two new issues:
 
1)I get run-on words where my program deleted invalid zone characters  that was at the end of line.
 
OCR Output Text File w/zone characters removed
FOR 
GENERATOR
 
I now get in the text file:
FORGENERATOR


2)Removing the zone characters does not appear to remove the extra lines. This is more of an issue if I need to save the result as non-ASCII text format.
 
OCR Output Text File w/zone characters removed
2400V
BUS
               // <--- leaves blank lines where zone chars were removed
               //    "         "      "


   ---
480V STATION
SERVICE BUS NO 4 YIB

Here is the code fragment:
void IterateOcrResults()
{
  foreach (IOcrPage ocrPage in _document.Pages)
    {
    IOcrPageCharacters pageCharacters = ocrPage.GetRecognizedCharacters();
    List delZoneChars = new List();


    foreach (IOcrZoneCharacters zoneCharacters in pageCharacters)
      {
      ICollection recogWords = zoneCharacters.GetWords(ocrPage.DpiX, ocrPage.DpiY, LogicalUnit.Pixel);

      foreach (OcrWord word in recogWords)
       {
        if (word is bad)
          {
           for (int i = word.FirstCharacterIndex; i <= word.LastCharacterIndex; i++)
             {
              OcrCharacter zoneCharacter = zoneCharacters[i];
              delZoneChars.Add(zoneCharacter);
             }
           }
                    // remove invalid zone chars
                    foreach (OcrCharacter ocrChar in delZoneChars)
                    {
                        zoneCharacters.Remove(ocrChar);

                }
                ocrPage.SetRecognizedCharacters(pageCharacters);
            }
        }

 
Do you have any suggestions how to resolve these issues?
 
Thank you!

Warren
[:)]