Chart drilldown #LABEL# values gets HTML-ized in item assignments

Question

I have a single series pie chart which has LABEL values of '< 7 days', '7-30 days' and '> 30 days', generated from a query like this:
select '',
case
   when time_spent < 7 then '< 7 days'
   when time_spent > 30 then '> 30 days'
   else '7-30 days'
end AS cat,
count(*)
from dataTo allow the user to drill down into the details of the chart, I created an Action Link set up as Link to Custom Target which takes me to an interactive report on another page. I set up Item 1 as an IR filter with the value set to *#LABEL#*.
All this works fine, but when the IR report displays, the filter is getting HTML-ized.
By that I mean:
'< 7 days' get set to '&lt 7 days'
'> 30 days' gets set to '&gt 30 days'
This of course is then not returning any rows in the report as the values no longer match.
Is there any way to make the value that gets set in the item show the actual < and > symbols and not the HTML versions of them? This is occurring to me in Apex 4.0 and 4.1
Thanks,
~ John

Answer 1

This has been resolved. For some reason the AnyChart template file in production was a different version. We copied this file from our development environment and now it works.