I am scratching my head hard over this one....

I have inventory DB for 2 companies under 1 roof.

What I did was get the DB working for main company, make a copy, change some text on reports and forms from company A to company B.

now I am adding some new reports to both DBs - using a parameter query.
you know, the standard: Between [enter starting date] and [enter ending date]
this query works fine in both DBs

Now I use this query to make a report, and pass the parameters into the report by using the [enter starting date] as the control source in a text box.
This works fine for company A but I can't get it to work for company B.

I am sure the text matches exactly between the query and report, in fact I even tried copying the text and pasting it into the control source box.

I have tried copying the entire query and report from A to B, and tried writing everything from scratch, but the dates just won't show up. (comes up blank)

I am totally stumped, anyone ever have an issue like this?
I am sure its something dumb, but I just can't find it!!

Wow, I solved my own issue!!!

Deleted both the the offending query and report, compacted and repaired, and then re-created both query and report. It was a bit of a PITA but it worked.

Strange issue.....

Yikes, it worked in one of my test copies, but not in the real version.
I am back to stumped once again. Deleted all and compacted several times, but still not showing up.
Now I am extra stumped!!

UPDATE:
error is in 2 different databases -
reports to display parameters that worked yesterday do not work today. created new test report using technique from here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208630
dont work in the 2 databases, but work fine in others.
Could this be some kind of damage to the database?

**UPDATE**
If anyone really cares -
I *think* I found the issue here

If the report has no data, then it does not print the parameters.

Since I was just testing out a new DB, my data changed often, sometimes I deleted it totally. Now that this is in production, no more missing parameters.

No Data=No Parameters printed.....

Glad you got it sorted and thank you very much for posting back with the answer. Perhaps this can help someone else in the future.
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