Schedule Webi report to CSV - text qualifier

Hi
We are running the latest version of Business Objects 4.0 SP04 (FP3) with Patch 1.
I am having a problem scheduling a Webi report to CSV format. The text qualifier option only allows the choice of ' (single quote). Not only is the text qualifier on text fields - it's also on numeric fields. This obviously causes a problem for Excel and other systems.
Is there a way of removing or replacing this text qualifier or preventing numeric fields from been wrapped with the text qualifier?
We are not having this problem with the interactive "Save as - TXT file" option.
Thanks for any input on this.
Kieran

Hi Experts,
Seeking your opinion on the following issue,
We are in version SAP BO 4.0 SP 4 Update
While trying to schedule a report with as CSV, the only option available as the Text qualifier is single quote ( ' ). Any sort of clue on why we don't see the option "None" listed in the combo?
Thanks,
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