I'd try and raise it as a bug

I'd feel much more confident about doing that if my readership had reached a consensus on whether the auto-corrected version and/or the suggested correction were correct or not. :-/

what CMS are you using out of curiosity?

Sitecore (http://www.sitecore.com/). It's probably very nice if you want something that looks/feels like Windows XP and which doesn't require you to see any of those nasty angle-brackety things. :-/