>I have removed the view from the container and rebuitl it from scratch. I get the same results. After repeating this at least 100 times I am now convinced I will not be able to beat the code into submission and that the view is inherently screwed up. What am I missing?

You've done a VALI DATA RECO, and corrected everything? At that point, I would download Erik Moore's Eview App from the files section here, and use it to open the view, it's more robust than the Designer...