Filtering Data For Charts & Graphs

Hi,
I've been using numbers for a while now and have ran into a problem I can't solve. I'm working on a project for my work. What I'd like to do is enter each day's revenue in different categories and have Numbers calculate some stats on those numbers. I plan on making each year (for now, there will be 2008, 2009, and 2010) a separate sheet. That's the easy part.
To compare the numbers from year to year, I'd like to be able to specify certain dates. I know about hiding the rows that I don't want. However, how can I make the sums be only those rows that are showing-not all the rows? I also know I could easily do this month-to-month. However, I work at a pet resort-our income varies from season to season and the dates for different seasons vary. I'd like to be able to compare let's say all of Christmas vacation which might have been 12/23-1/3 in 2008 but 12/24-1/2 for 2009. Is there anyway to do this in Numbers? I'm well versed on FileMake and know it can be done there but without charts. It doesn't make much sense to gather the data in FileMaker and export to Numbers, especially if I want to compare a few groups of dates quickly.
Thank you for any help!

I am not trying to dampen the desire for automation but if I can interject here, this is going to get more complicated. One thing you mentioned in your original post was that you will have a different sheet/table for each year. If you use SUMIFS (as has been the plan until now), the summary table with the start and end dates will need to 1) convert the year of the start/end dates to a table name so it pulls data from the correct table and 2) handle the case of a date range that spans a year (or multi-year) boundary or flag this as non-allowed. Not a problem to do either, just a little more work. The SUMIF solution has these same issues to deal with plus each year's table will need a set of extra columns as Jerry showed. If you have more than one summary report (such as one for Christmas, one for Easter, and one to play with), each report will require its own set of columns in each table. I note that Jerry's formulas in the extra columns cover the issue of multi-year boundaries as long as the summary table does a SUMIF of each of the year tables and sums the results. Again, it can all be done, it'll just be a little more work.
Going back to your original post and the desire to do comparisons of specific things like Christmas seasons of each year rather than what-if analyses that would require a lot of changes to date ranges to find out things like "what happens if Christmas season is defined as starting a day earlier or a day later or...", I am still wondering if it might be easier to select the data manually. Also, the lack of the SUMIFS function is a real limitation if you want more than one summary report in your document.
You know your plans better than I do; maybe automating it is the best idea for the long run. It is your call, I'm just giving my 2 cents based on the limited information I have.

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