Discoverer with OWB generated EULs

i configure my warehouse star schema using OWB (warehouse builder 9i release 2) and generated the EUL. the were some warnings but they were pointing to some invalid characters in the names of the objects but the import succeeded.
i could see all the imported definition from OWB using Discoverer Admin (also iDS Release 2 - EUL version 5).
sample of my star schema:-
fact table
salesman_id
product_id
sales_amt
dimension
salesman (which also contains salesman name attribute)
product (which also contains product description attribute)
so, i can see the Discoverer joins from the fact to the dimension tables.
when i create a workbook (report) using Discoverer Desktop, i faced the following problems:-
if i just have Salesman (ID or Description) as a row, everything is fine.
if i add in the Product ID, it still works as per normal.
but when i add Product Description into the report, i experienced a weird behaviour. somehow, the Salesman ID field will be automatically filtered to show only a certain number of records in the result (less than what it initially was) !
usually if you put field in the Page Items section you will have to select to view <All> records, right ? citing the scenario i just mentioned above, i will only see some record values ... i won't see the <All> displayed for me to choose.
has this got to do with the foreign key relationship from the Fact table's Product ID field to the Product Dimension table ? it worked for the Salesman dimension !!
the only thing different about the product dimension is the product id field is VARCHAR2 length 18. you could have numeric values like 000000000012345678 (numbers are padded with zeros to make up 18 chars) and alphanumeric values like MAT_TG12345 (which are not padded with anything - left-justified). i could set that the report would only retrieve the records which has product id matching the numeric values !
any ideas ?
thanks to anyone who is kind enough to read this lengthy post and reply it :)

It would appear that you do not have integrity between the fact and the product dimension.
Does the foriegn key exisit in the database (deployed) or is it only in the OWB repository (not deployed).
Two thing:-
Try changin the join to an outer join.
Take the sql from the View SQL drop down option and run in another SQL Editor.
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