Why does Number's include the date and cell title when creating a formula!!

When typing in a formula, if the 1st column has a date in it then, regardless of where on that row I begin the formula, the date and title of the column appears in the equation rather than the cell designations. What I get is this:
='# Shares Bought' 'Apr 4, 2009'*Share ∆ 'Apr 4, 2009'
All I wanted was =D2*H2, but instead I got all of that. If I manually erase everything and change it to =D2*H2 it reverts back as it was as shown above.
I tried the same thing without the date in the first column and this eliminated the problem. However, I need the date, so why does Number's insist on doing this?
Thanks.

And now, the envelope please. The winner is Jerry Green for his spot-on answer!
Hey, Jerry!
I really appreciate your response to this silly little problem. I've used a few spreads in my time, but I've never seen this before. Guess I should have checked the Prefs but didn't. Anyway, I'm good to go now.
This still, I don't think, explains why the row without the date configured correctly. Does it??
Again, thanks for your perfect answer.
Phillip

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