What Shawn said. Moreover, listen to beerbatteredphish. He played the same one I ended up buying, and we passed it back and forth for a good while. He's far more knowledgeable about Strats than I am, and he kept saying, "It shouldn't do that." It did not fret out at all - we tried all over the neck to make that happen, and we couldn't do it. And we were getting a full step and a half (and I've gotten two steps at home) all over the neck.
In fairness, he had more of an issue w/the smaller frets than I did. In all honesty, I never paid attention to the fret size. There are two guitars I have where I notice the fret size. One is the DGT - sometimes I feel the frets on slides up or down the neck. The other is a Les Paul that has really low frets.