diff --git a/ConfigMicro.pm b/ConfigMicro.pm
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b8f57db..df51a17
--- a/ConfigMicro.pm
+++ b/ConfigMicro.pm
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 # <pre>{ "sectionA" => { "keyA" => "valueA",
 #                   "keyB" => "valueB" },
 #   "sectionB" => { "keyA" => "valueC",
-#                   "keyC" => "valueD" } 
+#                   "keyC" => "valueD" }
 # }</pre>
 package ConfigMicro;
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ BEGIN {
 
 ## @cmethod $ new(%args)
 # Create a new ConfigMicro object. This creates an object that provides functions
-# for loading and saving configurations, and pulling config data from a database. 
+# for loading and saving configurations, and pulling config data from a database.
 # Meaningful options for this are:
 # filename - The name of the configuration file to read initial settings from. This
 #            is optional, and if not specified you will get an empty object back.
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ sub read {
     my $filename = shift or return set_error("No file name provided");
 
     # The current section, default it to '_' in case there is no leading [section]
-    my $section = "_"; 
+    my $section = "_";
 
     # TODO: should this return the whole name? Possibly a security issue here
     return set_error("Failed to open '$filename': $!")
@@ -126,8 +126,9 @@ sub read {
 
         # Handle attributes without quoted values - # or ; at any point will mark comments
 		} elsif($line =~ /^\s*([\w\-]+)\s*=\s*([^\#;]+)/ ) {
-			$self -> {$section} -> {$1} = $2;
-
+            my $key = $1;
+			$self -> {$section} -> {$key} = $2;
+            $self -> {$section} -> {$key} =~ s/^\s*(.*?)\s*$/$1/;
         # bad input...
 		} else {
             close(CFILE);
@@ -142,11 +143,11 @@ sub read {
 
 
 ## @method $ text_config(@skip)
-# Create a text version of the configuration stored in this ConfigMicro object. 
+# Create a text version of the configuration stored in this ConfigMicro object.
 # This creates a string representation of the configuration suitable for writing to
-# an ini file or otherwise printing. 
+# an ini file or otherwise printing.
 #
-# @param skip If you specify one or more section names, the sections will not be 
+# @param skip If you specify one or more section names, the sections will not be
 #             added to the string generated by this function.
 # @return A string representation of this ConfigMicro's config settings.
 sub text_config {
@@ -158,12 +159,12 @@ sub text_config {
     foreach $key (sort(keys(%$self))) {
         # Skip the internal settings
         next if($key eq "__privdata");
- 
+
         # If we have any sections to skip, and the key is one of the ones to skip... skip!
-        next if(scalar(@skip) && grep($key, @skip)); 
-            
+        next if(scalar(@skip) && grep($key, @skip));
+
         # Otherwise, we want to start a new section. Entries in the '_' section go out
-        # with no section header. 
+        # with no section header.
         $result .= "[$key]\n" if($key ne "_");
 
         # write out all the key/value pairs in the current section
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ sub text_config {
 # @param filename The file to save the configuration to.
 # @param skip     An optional list of names of sections to ignore when writing the
 #                 configuration.
-# @return true if the configuration was saved successfully, false if a problem 
+# @return true if the configuration was saved successfully, false if a problem
 #         occurred.
 sub write {
     my $self     = shift;
@@ -232,7 +233,7 @@ sub load_db_config {
     while($row = $confh -> fetchrow_hashref()) {
         $self -> {"config"} -> {$row -> {$name}} = $row -> {$value};
     }
-    
+
     return 1;
 }
 
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ sub save_db_config {
     my $value    = shift || "value";
 
     my $confh = $dbh -> prepare("UPDATE $table SET `$value` = ? WHERE `$name` = ?");
-    
+
     foreach my $key (keys(%{$self -> {"config"}})) {
         $confh -> execute($self -> {"config"} -> {$key}, $key)
             or return set_error("Unable to execute UPDATE query - ".$dbh -> errstr);
@@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ sub set_db_config {
     my $value    = shift;
     my $namecol  = shift || "name";
     my $valuecol = shift || "value";
-    
+
     my $confh = $dbh -> prepare("UPDATE $table SET `$valuecol` = ? WHERE `$namecol` = ?");
     $confh -> execute($value, $name)
         or return set_error("Unable to execute UPDATE query - ".$dbh -> errstr);