ALV Excel in place formatting problem

Hi All,
I'm running out of options with a particular problem I'm experiencing in ALV, and it i'm doing my head in...
The Problem :
I'm using ALV Grid to create a report. The report is sorted on 4 fields of which 3 have subtotals.
The whole of the report displays fine in ALV but when I start Excel in place, after 75 lines or so, the export to the Excel sheet seems to get confused and initially starts repeating merged cells (which is not that big a deal) but eventually values are left out all together.
I'm not posting any code, as it does not seem to have anything to do with my code (after all it displays correctly in ALV).
What I have tried sofar :
-Replaced sap_mm.xls and sap_om.xls templates in BDS --> No luck, still the same problems.
-Display without subtotals and kick off Excel in Place --> Works fine, no values truncated formatting OK, but not as I want it !!!
-If I filter out the sections one by one,eg, C2ST by itself, L1ST by itself, the export seems to work fine.
I have linked in two files, which show the problem :
Here is a [Screen shot of the Original SAP list |http://www.geocities.com/adutchoz/alv_PROBLEM.jpg].
And here is the [Excel in Place file |http://www.geocities.com/adutchoz/ALV_Formatting_problem.xls] which is wrongly formatted. As you can see after line 75 the cell merge does not work anymore and from  line 100 it is leaving out Management Activity column values.
Has anybody else experienced these problems ? I'm interested to know this before I go to OSS...
Any feedback will be highly be appreciated.
Cheers,
Wouter.

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