Special Characters in a username cause login problem

We have got SSO setup on our application and have successfully been testing away, until we tried logging in with an account which has a '+' character in the username. We are authenticating and getting an SSO token but the login process then fails with a "User has no profile in this organization" message. This call http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9820513 talks about a workaround that ignores the Profile service which does get us logged in, but in the longer term I need to be able to use this functionality to set conditions per URL policy.
Has anybody come across other probelms with usernames containing special characters? Is there some kind of encoding switch I need to turn on somewhere.
Cheers and TIA for your help.

Hi
<<< What did u change >?> I dont see any change with the Regex ? >>
if you observe in the modified function, he just removed (*) inside the replace funtion.
Thanks
Shankar AUNV

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