HTML link in report column -- help!!

I have a report generated from a sql statment. I load an image into a column using the following statement:
select
decode(processed,
-1,'img src="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#process_fail.gif" border="0" alt="Processing Failed"',
0,'href=#OWNER#.PROC_FUEL_ANN_REP?pk_seq_id=#PK_SEQ# img src="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#process_form.gif" border="0" alt="Process Form"',
1,'img src="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#processed.gif" border="0" alt="Form Processed"') "Processed",
"PK_SEQ",......select...from...
What is happening is that the image shows up just fine, and the link appears to work, but the #PK_SEQ# variable is not working. It shows up in the link as "...=#PK_SEQ" SHould be "...=1" The owner field gets populated correctly. The pk_seq field works with my blob download procedure (i.e. xxx.xxxxx?f_file=#PK_SEQ#).
Any clues or suggestions on how to get the #PK_SEQ# var to properly work in the link?
Thanks alot
brux2dc
ps. I had to remove the '< >' characters to make the post appear correctly.

You'll need to do string concatenation to get the primary key column from your table to appear in the href. Something like:
'href=#OWNER#.PROC_FUEL_ANN_REP?pk_seq_id=' || PK_SEQ || ' img src=....'
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