problem with sliceQuery with composite column

[Deno Vichas]

all,

could somebody clue me to why the below code doesn't work.  my schema is;
create column family StockHistory
    with comparator = 'CompositeType(LongType,UTF8Type)'
    and default_validation_class = 'UTF8Type'
    and key_validation_class = 'UTF8Type';


 the time part works but i'm getting other column with the second half 
not equaling the value set.  it's like it's ignoring the string part of 
the composite.

        Composite start = new Composite();
        Composite end = new Composite();
        start.addComponent(0, 
startDate.toDateTimeAtStartOfDay().toDate().getTime(), 
Composite.ComponentEquality.EQUAL);
        end.addComponent(0, 
endDate.toDateMidnight().toDate().getTime(), 
Composite.ComponentEquality.EQUAL);

        start.addComponent(1, "ticks", Composite.ComponentEquality.EQUAL);
        end.addComponent(1, "ticks", 
Composite.ComponentEquality.GREATER_THAN_EQUAL);

        SliceQuery<String, Composite, String> sliceQuery =
                HFactory.createSliceQuery(_keyspace, _stringSerializer, 
new CompositeSerializer(), _stringSerializer);
        sliceQuery.setColumnFamily(CF_STOCK_HISTORY).setKey(symbol);
        sliceQuery.setRange(start, end, false, 10);

        QueryResult<ColumnSlice<Composite, String>> result = 
sliceQuery.execute();
        ColumnSlice<Composite, String> cs = result.get();
        SortedSet<String> historyJSON = new TreeSet<String>();
        for ( HColumn<Composite, String> col: cs.getColumns() ) {
            System.out.println(col.getName().get(0, _longSerializer) 
+"|"+ col.getName().get(1,StringSerializer.get()));
        }


this outputs the following;

    1327035600000|ticks
    1327046400000|quote
    1327294800000|ticks
    1327305600000|quote
    1327381200000|ticks
    1327392000000|quote
    1327467600000|ticks
    1327478400000|quote
    1327554000000|ticks
    1327564800000|quote

thanks,
deno