Matlab's latex interpreter is broken

When trying to use something like

title('$\int_0^1 f(x) \, dx $', 'interpreter', 'latex');

in (some versions of) Matlab on a Unix platform the output is garbled. The image to the left shows a zoom-in of the title of two plots using the above code: Within the image are two parts: the left is the result of executing the above code on a Windows machine while the left was generated by executing the above code on a Unix machine. I wish someone had a fix for this. Such capability would be really useful.

Here is a link to a post from 2008 that shows that this problem has not been taken care of

http://www.mathworks.de/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/161183