Hi:
I haven't had a chance to look at this in any detail, however, ODS ESCAPECHAR functionality is not supported by SAS/Graph procedures.
http://support.sas.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=5390ᔎ
Otherwise, generally with ODS PDF startpage=never will allow a table and graph to co-exist on a page in a PDF file. Although you may need some techniques to size (XPIXEL and YPIXEL) and position (HORIGIN and VORIGIN) the graph output on the page as described in this Tech Support paper:
PDF:
http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts659/ts659.pdf
If you are still having issues with your code, you may want to contact Tech Support, where they can look at ALL your code to see what's happening and can help you fix it.
cynthia