Sorry about that. It's release 3.1 final, I updated it prior to posting here. 

But I think I got rid of it, though I don't exactly know how. I did several
things before adding in all the required strings and getting the desired
result. So maybe this will help if anyone ever has the same problem:

I deleted the previously, and supposedly overwritten, output files of the
.xls stream before generating a new one.
I closed Excel for several minutes. 
I increased the Java heap space (though never getting a heap space error er
experiencing a slow behaviour during writing to disk)
I shut down everything else in preparations for a restart to really clear
the memory for good (had been running for three days).
I removed all system.out messages that were generated directly prior to the
actual write to disc procedure.


So what ever did it, The last file came out nicely. 

Sorry to have bothered you =/

Thorsten


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