Whenever you need to provide default values for your list that contains special characters like "<" "&" and so on, don't forget to encapsulate them in CDATA, neither the html entity name nor the entity number is working…
<ListInstanceFeatureId="{C6E862CB-BA2B-4976-A6B6-FFB162872F56}"
Title="Power"
Url="Lists/Power"
Description="Power items list that will store and manage the various power values."
OnQuickLaunch="TRUE"
TemplateType="10001"> <Data>
<Rows>
<Row>
<Field Name='ID'>1</Field>
<Field Name='Title'><![CDATA[<10W]]></Field>
</Row>
<Row>
<Field Name='ID'>2</Field>
<Field Name='Title'>10 – 50W</Field>
</Row>
<Row>
<Field Name='ID'>3</Field>
<Field Name='Title'>50 – 100W</Field>
</Row>
<Row>
<Field Name='ID'>4</Field>
<Field Name='Title'>100 – 150W</Field>
</Row>
<Row>
<Field Name='ID'>5</Field>
<Field Name='Title'>150 – 250W</Field>
</Row>
<Row>
<Field Name='ID'>6</Field>
<Field Name='Title'>250 – 600W</Field>
</Row>
<Row>
<Field Name='ID'>7</Field>
<Field Name='Title'><![CDATA[> 600W]]></Field>
</Row>
</Rows>
</Data> </ListInstance> François