I am using a custom tag in MX7 that was working fine in 5 that renders a table.
The input to the custom tag is a query and it's columns along with some
formatting. If a column of data begins with all numerics and then later in the
data some text appears, the cfquery (query on the passed in query) tag throws
an error that the text cannot be converted to a number. I didn't want it to be
a number in the first place. If the first item includes non-numeric
characters, it performs fine.

In the thrown exception, I see that CF "guesses" that this column is of type
double and when it runs into the text, it blows up. Is there any way to
override this? I tried appending some text, "", to the front but this didn't
work.