Desktop Intelligence unusual behavior

Hello All,
I have a serious issue here.
We built a few deski reports.when we run the report that wrong data is displayed in wrong fields.....this behaviour is not conisistent.
We thought this happens when we are modifying existing reports....so we started to build from sracth.this worked in some cases and did not work in others.
This looks like a bug displaying right and wrong results at different times.
We upgraded to SP 3 couple of months back.....could it be due to that?
Any inputs on this highly appreciated.
Thanks

Is it against SAP BW queries?
If so, it is likely that the problem is caused by the underlying Bex query changing. You'll need to create a new version of the universe to get round this feature. (It's a feature until it's fixed, then it's a bug!)

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What is the source of your csv data?
If I have a table in excel with empty cells, the data goes into the .csv as nothing so your example would look like
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AAAAAEUK,130,A
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If all else fails, just run a search&replace and change ,#EMPTY, to ,,
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