Why do waveforms show garbage in the plot legend and why is no one mentioning this?

I have tried this on multiple machines and the result is the same. The plot legend expands and shrinks with garbage characters each time the waveform is updated.
Sometimes the plot legend expands to as many as 100 garbage characters (or more). Is NI aware of this?

Hi Ben
Ok I managed to get a small enough version of it to zip it up and show what happens. I hope the demo is intact enough to show the plot legend.
just run the VI "0_bloat-OVEN.vi"
It uses a simulation file for the waveform but if u have a DAQ bd just uncheck the "Simulate DAQ bd?" button.
Ive seen this on 3 machines now WIn 98 WIn XP and Win2K.
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WF-PlotLegend.zip ‏778 KB

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