Using Select List value for building report

I have an interactive report form. I have a "After Header" (LOAD) process that run sql commands that will populate a table with the data that the report needs for a given week.
I have a Select List item that is run as a "Before Header" that gets a list of dates from a table. The dates only contain the first day of the week for the past two years. It is called "WEEK_OF" table and the column is called "WEEK_OF_DATE".
The default value for the Select List is the first day of the current week. And then all of the first day of the week from the WEEK_OF table.
I would like the LOAD process to use the value in the Select List. So at start up I would like the List to show the current week and report to begin with data from the current week.
So I have tried to use the variable :WEEK_OF_DATE (Item name) as the beginning date for the report. However :WEEK_OF_DATE is null.
Also, after I have the report displayed, I would like to select a new date from the list and have the report automatically refresh with that new data.
Any Ideas what I am doing wrong?

Hi Lyle,
When setting a default value for a select list that is to be used to filter a report, I have found it best to do that using a computation, conditional on the item being NULL and running Before Header. If other computations rely on this value, then it should have the lowest sequence number to ensure that the value is available for those.
Andy

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Do you submit the page or set the value after changing the selection? If not, the display value seems to be Bob but the working value is still Fred. That's what you are seeing right? In the "Settings" section, what do you have for "Page Action when Value Changed". I've been using "Redirect and Set Value" because I was staying on the same page after the selection.
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