[O] Bug(?) report footnotes

[Markus Grebenstein]

Dear Orgmode community,

last week I submitted a journal paper of appr. 30 pages using orgmode 
and latex export and I ran into trouble regarding footnotes several times.

The document didn't compile due to wrongly set brackets of footnotes if:
A footnote is placed without a blank line infront of a heading that is 
exported as itemized.

so
 [fn:xyz]
**** Heading

was exported to something like

\footnote{asdfsdfasdfasdf \begin{itemize} qwerwerwqe}

since the document has been quite big it has been really plenty of work 
to find these errors.

If of any interest I can try to reproduce this in a less than 9500 word 
ducument.

Best Markus
P.S.: I used the IEEEtran class.