On Apr 23, 11:28 am, Captain Paralytic <paul_laut...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> But you didn't bother to tell anybody that you had solved it.

I haven't solved it. Right now, I'm working on other parts of the
project where I'm getting more done. I'll come back to my bug later,
since it appears to be a timesink. Another poster demonstrated to me
that my simple suspicion of what was wrong could not be the case, so
now I know which avenues of attack not to pursue.

I didn't ask anybody to solve my problem. All that's happened is that
I asked a few questions about MySQL, and they got answered. Since I
could not post my specific table structure, I deliberately posted
general questions about MySQL that could be answered without knowing
the specific table structure. People wondered why I wouldn't post the
table structure, and I tried to answer the questions as best as I
could. In retrospect I probably could have done a better job
communicating those reasons.