Tinkering with the database is not recommended - if adding options will not work through the editor there may be a bug that needs addressing. I would therefore appreciate the opportunity to look into it and fix it, so please do raise a support ticket.
You might find that turning on the legacy renderer (on the details tab) fixes your layout issues, but even so they should not be stacking up (although that can happen on mutli-column layouts if you have 'close gaps' switched on - you can turn that off on the page properties).