CFGRID format=HTML not working in IE8

Question

I'm using Cold Fusion 10 and trying a cfgrid and it does not work in IE8.  It works perfectly in FF, of course. :-).
It IS within a Cfform in my .cfm file.  Even when I take it down to it's simplest form to try to debug it doesn't work, but here is my original code:
<cfgrid name = "FirstGrid"
        height="200" width="700"
        font="arial" fontsize="12"
        query = "Getdates"
        SORT="Yes"
        selectmode="edit"
        format="html"
        >
        <CFGRIDCOLUMN NAME="anumber" DATAALIGN="LEFT"
        BOLD="No" ITALIC="No"
        SELECT="No" DISPLAY="No"
        HEADERBOLD="No" HEADERITALIC="No">
    <CFGRIDCOLUMN NAME="schoolyear" HEADER="School Year"
        HEADERALIGN="LEFT" DATAALIGN="LEFT"
        BOLD="Yes" ITALIC="No"
        SELECT="Yes" DISPLAY="Yes"
        HEADERBOLD="No" HEADERITALIC="Yes">
    <CFGRIDCOLUMN NAME="doh" HEADER="Date of Hire"
        HEADERALIGN="LEFT" DATAALIGN="LEFT"
        BOLD="No" ITALIC="No"
        SELECT="Yes" DISPLAY="Yes"
        HEADERBOLD="No" HEADERITALIC="No" type="date">
    <CFGRIDCOLUMN NAME="leavedate" HEADER="Leave Date"
        HEADERALIGN="LEFT" DATAALIGN="LEFT"
        FONT="Times" BOLD="No"
        ITALIC="No" SELECT="Yes"
        DISPLAY="Yes" HEADERBOLD="No"
        HEADERITALIC="No">
    <CFGRIDCOLUMN NAME="Returnfromleavedate" HEADER="Return From Leave Date"
        HEADERALIGN="LEFT" DATAALIGN="LEFT"
        BOLD="No" ITALIC="No"
        SELECT="Yes" DISPLAY="Yes"
        HEADERBOLD="No" HEADERITALIC="No">
    <CFGRIDCOLUMN NAME="terminatedresignedretireddate" HEADER="Terminated/Resigned/Retired"
        HEADERALIGN="LEFT" DATAALIGN="LEFT"
        BOLD="No" ITALIC="No"
        SELECT="Yes" DISPLAY="Yes"
        HEADERBOLD="No" HEADERITALIC="No">
    </cfgrid>
Thanks for any help!
B.

Answer 1

Sorry, I should have used the code tags. Let me ask that again.
I have HTML formatted data stored in VARCHAR2 columns on the database for which I am using a stylesheet to format into XSL-FO to resolve the HTML tags. For example, my data template populates a field PARAGRAPH_TEXT with content such as
<b>some bold text</b>and I am using
<xsl:apply-templates select="PARAGRAPH_TEXT"/>in my RTF template to process the data using the stylesheet to convert it to
<fo:inline font-weight="bold">some bold text</fo:inline>The HTML tags are corrrectly resolved when using the BI Publisher Word add-in and the output is correctly rendered in bold text but this does not happen when running on the server in an E-Business Suite environment due to the HTML tags in the output XML being generated as e.g. &lt;b&gt; instead of <b>. Has anybody experienced this and, more importantly, can anybody suggest a way of getting e.g. <b> in the XML instead of &lt;b&gt;