Receiving an 'Error formatting cross-tab object' error when paging through preview

I have a report with two subreports in the group footer.  One of the subreports contains a cross-tab report.  When I preview the report as a whole, occasionally I get an error formatting cross-tab object and then no more pages of the report are displayed.  If instead I choose to export the report to pdf, Crystal Reports crashes.  Any ideas on what might be causing these problems?

Actually, you can search for them by entering the KBA number in the search box in the top right  corner of this web page. KBA 1214209 comes up fine. KBA 1212875 does not, but it's not really applicable.
While we are at the search box, see if a search term like 'crystal cross tab' (or something like that) bring up other KBAs.
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    Hi Kumar
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    2.1214209 - Err Msg: "Error formatting crosstab object"
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