I am very pleased for you, and hope this will work out in your situation.
HOWEVER, for the benefit of people who may see this thread later, this contradicts what has been told to great numbers of applicants before you, who have seen their application refused for lack of the exact Level 7 specified, although they had a higher level qualification. As it says at the LTSSL,
Note 1: Qualifications must be comparable to the standard of the New Zealand qualification listed.
This seems to be why.
http://www.enz.org/forum/showthread....163#post463163