Crystal reports 2008: Data appears upon refresh, but not on initial open

I have an updated crystalreports.com / salesforce.com report to which I added a new subreport and an additional grouping. The report is working fine, with one (rather major) issue: when the report is first opened, only some of the data is shown - there are ~15 columns of data, most of which populate, but some individual values, which sometimes means an entire column of data, do not appear unless the report is refreshed.
I have the original report still loaded in crystalreports.com, so that I can (and have) run both reports one right after the other; on first open, the data doesn't agree. When I refresh the newer report, the 'lost' data appears and everything is fine.
(Makes for a tough sell, though - 'Oh, just refresh the report.')
Any thoughts as to a) what might be causing this, and b) how it might be resolved?
It is not subreport data that is being affected, just so you know - that's working beautifully; the affected fields are Standard Summaries of formula fields, and not all instances of those summaries, either, but specific ones again and again.

I have not used the 'Save Data with Report' option, and I verified that it is not selected under File / Report Options as well. It appears to be an issue when there are too many (unknown how many that is, as of yet) results being retrieved.
In this case, the main report is a report on Activities from the start of the current year, using a Salesforce.com report, and the Subreport pulls its data directly from the Activities table (as the main report considers all of the fields to be String(255) fields, even if they are ought to be read in as Memo fields (or number)). The link to Activities allows the Description field to be pulled in based on the Activity ID, and coming straight from the database the value is pulled in as a Memo.
If I limit the Activities to records beginning with 'A', for instance, the report runs fine; 'A - G', in this instance, retrieves too many and the error re: the database connector appears.
Edited by: prozek on Apr 22, 2010 7:53 PM

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