Right neck size?

Took lessons in high school, stopped playing for 15 years, now I've been playing again for a couple of months and keep running into problems on chords where my fingers are next to each (e.g. A major) and where i have to extend my fingers fairly far over an adjoining string (e.g., B minor). The problem is that I have large hands with I guess fat fingers, b/c the smallest sliver of my skin constantly hits the string next to it - creating that dreaded muted flat sound.

I'm playing on a new folk style acoustic guitar from Fender (FA-125OS). I didn't even think to ask if the folk style body had a smaller neck then the regular body, but anyone have any thoughts? Do I need a different guitar with a wider neck? If so which acoustic brands tend to have the wider necks? Would lowering the action help?

Use fewer fingers where possible, and work on technique where you can't. So for an A chord, I see a lot of people jamming 3 fingers in there to make the chord. I use 2 or 1 depending. That's one thing to look for so you have less flesh competing for space.

Otherwise, practice because it can be overcome. I was watching this local dude on the New years stuff and he had seriously sausage fingers. I mean he was a [u]big[/u] guy and a finger could easily fret 2 strings. And yet he pulled off. He was awesome, in fact.

So it can be done! :)