>>Someone else did the coding for this [snip] it had DTOC() on the date in the SQL (why, I don't know)...
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>Can you find that programmer and smack 'em ... er, I mean ask them if they had a reason for doing that? ;) ;)

Well, he made some valuable contributions, too, so we'll grant some mercy this time :) But the fact that the base table had a date field, and DTOC made the cursor character date appear as a genuine date really through me off track...it was only when I started getting report errors when trying date conversion that I caught on...but next time I'll do a TYPE() on the darn field first thing :)