Column formulas?

Has there been a change to the way column formulas work in 09? I did a trial of iWork 08 a while back, and while I was very impressed, there were a few critical features missing. Some of those have been addressed in 09, so I am doing another trial. I loaded up one of the sample spreadsheets I created in 08 and I am trying to modify a column formula to use some of the new functions, but I keep getting an error about "[column name] is not a valid argument for '-' operator" (or something to that effect), and the error only appears in the header row (the remaining columns retain their original formula).
Am I missing something? I can't find much info about column formulas in the help. (And has the ability to edit them been improved at all? Having to re-enter it from scratch in the header, and then retype the text for the header is hardly user-friendly.)
Thanks
Colin
Message was edited by: Colin Young

Edit the header formula was not a problem.
I built it in row 2 then, when it was OK,
I copied the content of the Formula Bar
selected the header cell
put the cursor in the Formula Bar and pasted.
Often I also pasted the formula in a WP document
which was often useful to change the parameter separator before posting here.
I already posted a request to Bug Hunters:
+Your tracking number for this issue is Bug ID# 6484016. You may check status on this report via the 'My Originated Problems' tab. When contacting us by email, please be sure to reference your Bug ID number.+
Hello
+I am testing Numbers v2.+
+The multi header rows feature is fine but, was it really necessary to drop the "Applying a Formula Once to Cells in a Column or Row" function which was very useful ?+
+It gives the ability to have perfect auto-filling cells when we insert new rows.+
+I hope that you will be able to revive it soon.+
Just Wait and See.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 10 janvier 2009 16:26:41)

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