APEX and BI Publisher - Characters Cause Report to Fail

My BI Publisher reports that have a "%" character on the *.rtf template are failing when I run them through APEX. The same reports run fine when loading sample data into Word and running the reports from Word.
I tried some logic to escape the "%" character but I could not get it to work. Does anyone have a workaround?
Here are other threads where this issue was encountered but I have not seen a fix.
APEX 3.0.1 and BI Publisher 10.1.3.2: escape character for percent sign?
'&' character and BI Publisher Intergration
BI Publisher report multiple queries
Regards,
Todd

The workaround is found in Metalink Note:463284.1.
In the rtf (template) use %25 instead of %. The pdf output will be %.

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