Incomplete List of Values in Interactive Report Column Headers

Oracle Database 11g 64-bit
Apex 3.1.1.00.09
I created an interactive report that results in over 10,000 records, and several of the columns have incomplete filter values when you click on the column header. It's not even close in some instances. It's not even showing the values that are loaded in the visible page.
I have tried recreating the report on a new page, as well as creating a database view with the query and then just querying the view (in case there was a problem with query complexity).
I'm at my wits end as to why this is happening. Have any of you seen this happen, and is there any way to get around it? I know I can write my own LOV query for the column headers, but those won't be dynamic like they are supposed to be out of the box taking applied filters into account.
Thanks in advance.

Tim,
Did you find a solution to this. I have the same problem.
Cheers
Yog

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