Higher dimension level in OWB 11gr2

Hi everyone
For the first time I am trying to join a cube to a dimension at a level 3 above the lowest level. The cube, dimension etc are all OK and the mapping validates and seems fine. But when I checked the cursor it generated I found that although it had joined on the correct business key for that level it also joined to al the child rows as well (which gave me 1.6 billion rows).
The relevant code is:
FROM
"D_ORGANISATION" "D_ORGANISATION"
WHERE
( "D_ORGANISATION"."INSTITUTION_SK" IS NOT NULL....
And as far as I can see if I add the following I get the correct result which is just the rows from the dimension which represent the Institution level.
AND "D_ORGANISATION". "COLLEGE_SK" IS NULL (College is the level below Institution)
Could anyone tell me what I missing here because despite searching the manuals and Google I can't find any mention of this problem or where I can change OWB to make it work.
Thanks in advance
Pete

Hi sorry this is a bit late, I never received the email saying someone had replied to my post but I did change jobs so that could explain it.
I never found an actual solution and always meant to raise this as a bug.
But...I did find a workaround which is to use manual lookups and add a condition where the level skey is equal to the dimension_skey. It doesn't help with using the cube operator but it got my facts built, albeit with a lot of extra lookups that should have been unnecessary :-(
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