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***SEE OTHER POST, THIS WAS INITIAL THINKING POST***

From what I can see, you might be overcomplicating it :)

so what you really need is to concat the category to the title looking SIMILAR TO

 update HD_TICKET
join HD_CATEGORY on HD_CATEGORY.ID = HD_TICKET.HD_CATEGORY_ID
set HD_TICKET.TITLE = concat(HD_TICKET.TITLE, " : ", HD_CATEGORY.NAME)

I just tested that and it worked great, on a single ticket, but testing it ON TICKET SAVE has come up with some interesting results, so please make sure you test in a test environment.

What you can do though, is set it up sorta like yours using the TICKET_IDS in the update query with the query I supplied, and using a rule that only finds tickets on creations.  I will build that and report back in.

I ran it within the select query section of a new rule (literally just copy/pasted it in) and then did a run now.  It says it didn't select anything (because it's not a select query) but a check of your ticket shows that it should've worked.

Okay what I described secondly worked great:

here is my SELECT QUERY:

 select HD_TICKET.ID,
HD_TICKET.ID as TICKNUM,
HD_TICKET.TITLE,
U1.USER_NAME as OWNER_NAME,
U3.USER_NAME as LASTINPUTNAME, 
DATE_FORMAT(HD_TICKET.CREATED,'%b %d %Y %I:%i:%s %p') as CREATED,
DATE_FORMAT(HD_TICKET.MODIFIED,'%b %d %Y %I:%i:%s %p') as MODIFIED,
HD_STATUS.NAME AS STATUS_NAME,
HD_STATUS.ORDINAL as STATUS_ORDINAL,
STATE,
U1.FULL_NAME as OWNER_FULLNAME,
U1.EMAIL as OWNER_EMAIL,
U2.USER_NAME as SUBMITTER_NAME,
U2.FULL_NAME as SUBMITTER_FULLNAME,
U2.EMAIL as SUBMITTER_EMAIL,
U3.EMAIL as UPDATEREMAIL,
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(HD_TICKET_CHANGE.TIMESTAMP),
COMMENT
from ( HD_TICKET,
HD_PRIORITY,
HD_STATUS,
HD_IMPACT,
HD_CATEGORY)
JOIN HD_TICKET_CHANGE ON HD_TICKET_CHANGE.HD_TICKET_ID = HD_TICKET.ID
  and HD_TICKET_CHANGE.ID=<CHANGE_ID>
left join USER U1 on U1.ID = HD_TICKET.OWNER_ID
left join USER U2 on U2.ID = HD_TICKET.SUBMITTER_ID
left join USER U3 on U3.ID = HD_TICKET_CHANGE.USER_ID
where HD_PRIORITY.ID = HD_PRIORITY_ID  and
HD_STATUS.ID = HD_STATUS_ID  and
HD_IMPACT.ID = HD_IMPACT_ID  and
HD_CATEGORY.ID = HD_CATEGORY_ID  and
HD_TICKET_CHANGE.DESCRIPTION LIKE 'TICKET CREATED%'

then the update query:

  update HD_TICKET
join HD_CATEGORY on HD_CATEGORY.ID = HD_TICKET.HD_CATEGORY_ID
set HD_TICKET.TITLE = concat(HD_TICKET.TITLE, " : ", HD_CATEGORY.NAME)
WHERE (HD_TICKET.ID in (<TICKET_IDS>))

and this seemed to work great on the 5 or so tickets I created and played with.

 (note:  Set it for ticket save!)

FYI This is a good idea, which is why I jumped on this, good on you !

Give this a try and let me know.