XL Reporter & Conditional Formatting

I am building my Income Statement / P&L in XL Reporter, and I want to draw attention to any items out of the ordinary. I have each period in two columns, the 1st column being the actual amount and the 2nd being the % of revenues. I want to do conditional formatting on only the second column, so if it is off the average % of revenues, I'll notice it. The problem is that when multiple periods are expanded, Excel applies the conditional formatting to both columns. How do I eliminate that and only apply to one of the two expanding columns?

I'm using Excel 2007 and here is my basic table layout:
C column - $ figures
D column - % of revenue
(these two columns are repeated for the selected number of periods)
E (or whatever column it ends up being) - sum of $ figures
F (or whatever column it ends up being) - average of % of revenue
F1 - The percentage difference from the average that I want highlighted
The conditional formatting that I have set up is applied to column D (and should be applied to the new F, H, etc):
= D4<($F4*(1-$F$1))
Another problem I have run into with this is that it keeps the $F column as $F, regardless of how many periods are included. I can't leave it without an absolute reference because then each period refers to a different column for the average. The easiest solution I've thought of is putting my sums on the left, but I'd rather not do that.

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