Help building report layout

Hello,
I have to alter a report layout on Reporting Services 2008 and after 2 and a half days trying I simply give up!
It's impossible to make this layout in RS2008. It simply does not accept what I need to do. See layout bellow:
Consumption Location X
MU A | PartNo x | Part Description | Qty
| PartNo y | Part Description | Qty
MU B | PartNo q | Part Description | Qty
MU C | PartNo n | Part Description | Qty
| PartNo z | Part Description | Qty
| PartNo s | Part Description | Qty
--------------------Skip line-----------------
Consumption Location Z
MU G | PartNo t | Part Description | Qty
--------------------Skip line-----------------
This "Consumption Location" must be over the pieces of information and they are data from my query, so are the other columns. The 4 other columns must be grouped, so they can look as the first image, otherwise won't have the layout needed.
Now I ask you: How can I do such thing?!
I appreciate the help, and I'm sorry that I sounded mad. I'm really pissed off 'cause of this.
Tks!

I believe I have reproduced the layout you are looking for.
I created a static dataset using sample data similar to what you have:
I then added a table and the dataset to the above sample dataset. I added a parent group to the detail group (MU) and a parent group to MU (Consumption Location). These each added a group column. I deleted both of the new group columns without deleting the
groups. I deleted the existing header row then added a Total row to the MU group > Before. I right-clicked the new total row and Inserted a row > Inside Group - Above. I added a 4th detail cell by right-clicking the middle column and choosing Insert
Column (either left or right). Now I merged the 4 cells of the top total row together and did the same for the bottom total row.
I populated the data as follows... bottom total row I added [Consumption Location]. In the 4 data cells from left to right... [MU], [PartNo], [Description], [Qty]. Last step is to edit the expression in the first detail cel. Instead of just displaying [MU]
you want that for only the first record of the group so use the following expression instead: =IIf(Previous(Fields!MU.Value) = Fields!MU.Value, "", Fields!MU.Value)
Add a little formatting to make it pretty and...
The empty total row at the top I set the top, left and right border style to None. This gives you the empty line.
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