How to feed a query using a variable defined as Replacement Path-Query

Scenario description : BI NetW 2004S - InfoCube with the following characteristics Customer, OrderDate, OrderYear and the following KeyFigure Number of Pieces.
Objective: I need a query "QB" that shows how many pieces a set of customers has ordered in the year 2008. The set of customers is defined as all customers that in the previous years (the user can select one or more years) have ordered more than 500 pieces within the same year.
Implementation: In general terms the idea is to build a query "QB" with the characteristic "Customer" that is restricted (filtered) using a variable that is fed by another query "QA" (Replacement Path-Query).
In order to have the selection of customers that for each of previous years (2007, 2006, 2005,...) have ordered more than 500 pieces, in the query "QA":
- I put OrderYear as filter and defined a variable in order to ask the user which year/s he wants to analyse to define the selection
- I put Customer and OrderYear in row
- I put the KeyFigure Number of Pieces in column
- I've defined the following condition: Number of Pieces > 500 with the option Caracteristic Assignment = All Characteristics in the Drilldown Indipendently
Now if I run the query "QA" it works correctly showing me all customers that in the selected years have ordered more than 500 pieces within of the same year.
If I run the query "QB" it shows a correct result only if I enter only one year (for example 2006) in the OrderYear field (coming from the query "QA"); if I enter more than one year (for example 2006 and 2007) the selection of customers showed is not the same defined by the first query "QB": I was expecting to see all customers defined from the first query less all customers that have no ordered any piece in 2008.
Questions
1) Why is query "QA" working on a different selection of customers when the user selects more than one year?
2) Cosidering the scenario and the objective described above do you have any other idea?
Thanks
Ciao
Roberto

Hi Christophe,
it's ok for me if I consider the customer only once in the final selection of customers that feeds the final query, this is my objective.
However as test I've created 2 "input" queries, one related to 2006 and one related to 2007, and then in my destination query I've tried to restrict the customer using 2 variables of type replacement path-query (one attached to the 2006 query and one attached to the 2007 query). Unfortunately when I try to check and save the destination query, Query Designer tells me it is not possible to restrict the characteristic in this way.
Could you please describe me steps you run in to order to restrict a characteristic using more than one variable of type replacement path-query?
Thank you in advance for your answer.
Ciao,
Roberto

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