This really seems like an issue for SAS Tech Support. For one thing, they can actually test on SAS 9.2 to see whether they can replicate your issue. And there is a difference between CREATING HTML output, which the ODS HTML statement and Tools/Options/Preferences will do and OPENing the HTML output with a browser. Tech Support are best able to handle this type of question.
cynthia
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