Interactive Report BUG (hangs when sorting columns)

Hi All,
i have an interactive report, and when i click on a column to sort the data the report hangs.
To circle in the screen keeps circeling and on the botom and i get an javascipt error in the apex_3_1.js file.
i am working with apex 3.2.1.00.02 with an oracle 10G DB.
I also can reporduce this error. When i have an interactive report in which the sorting works properly and i copy this page to a new page i get a report in which the interactive report sorting is not working.
Can you please help me in resolving the issue, or is this a known bug ?
Regards,
Marco Schlicher

Hello,
I came across the same issue. I made a test IR report with the following query
SELECT '<span class="blue">'||id||'</span>'||name as n_name, id
FROM
+(SELECT ''||fullname||'' name, id from users)+
It all works fine on FF but IE returns this
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; InfoPath.2; AskTB5.5)
Timestamp: Wed, 5 May 2010 07:53:11 UTC
Message: Unknown runtime error
Line: 1
Char: 9270
Code: 0
URI: http://localserver/i/javascript/apex_3_1.js
Using the IE debugging tool, error occurs upon this
function $dom_AddTag(E,A,C)
+{+
var D=document.createElement(A);
var B=$x(E);
+if(B){B.appendChild(D)}+
+if(C!=null){D.innerHTML=C}+
return D}
It all works fine if I remove the <a href... tag...But I need it and I can't use the column properties since it's quite a huge list of if's for the link creation.
Thanks,
Andrea

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