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@36x18
Howard, You've presumably seen this page, http://hubstripping.wordpress.com/alfine-shimano/ which shows you are not the only one!
Try to reduce the spacers as far as you can, re-dish the wheel if required, and cold set the frame the Sheldon Brown way, with a bit of 2x4 timber and a vernier gauge, to the width required by your axle.
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html
Cold setting is not scary if you do it carefully (it needs much less force than you would imagine)
although there are plenty of people who would disagree. I've only done it once, but wondered what all the fuss was about afterwards.