I think your image link is broken, probably because the entity instead of just &.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=wa680x&s=8#.VG88B7stD1S

If that is the right picture (under a ton of pop-ups [:)] ) - it looks like a cousin of the black-dot problem fixed in 4.4. But this is really not for me to say...

ok

PS the entity I refer is amp (with a & in front and ; after) cannot be written without being auto-converted into &...