Grouping by a concatenated field?

I have a report with 1 group and 3 additional sort fields. What I'd LIKE to do is have a single field that I add all the sort fields into, to create a single field, and then group by that. So that any time any of the elements of that field change, it triggers the group change. For example:
Group on: FIELD1
Sort on: FIELD2, FIELD3, FIELD4
Goal:
Build a single string, MyStr := FIELD1 + FIELD2 + FIELD3 + FIELD4
Remove all groups and sorts, then group on that formula field.
Can that be done, and if so, can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks a million! You guys are really helping me get this project off the ground.
(CR2010)
ETA: Though this sounds ridiculous, this particular report would benefit greatly from this methodology. Long story (sigh).

On another thread I posted this morning, I asked for assistance with creating a string in which multiple Hard Drive capacities were placed (i.e. "500G, 1T, 2T", etc) and only displayed when the group changed. While that worked well, there are SIX total group/sort fields. I would really like to combine all those into a single string, group on that, and insert the formula when the group changes. It seems easier than trying to manage so many fields. If I want to keep them individual, I have to change them all to Groups, because when any ONE of those fields changes (and yes, the are in order of frequency-of-change), I'd need to display a line of data that would include the capacity string.
The detail section would be entirely suppressed.
It just seems that it would be easier to have a single group to manage, rather than a group plus 4 or more sort fields.

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