Sorry to have been away, I would like to update future readers on what I had to do to fix this. Thank you to Friendly User 387 for pointing me in the right direction. I did tear apart the report by actually creating 5 sepearate reports from the original, leaving the Group Footers and datasets for each one in a singular report until I found the issue. Once found, I put the corrected versions all back into a single report (cut and paste). However... With each test report I adjusted the elements within the frame as I was told in the error reporting from the user software (not the development software--iReport). Once they all worked individually, I cut and pasted them one at a time back to a new repport. However, this is where it got tricky, elements in footers which worked independently broke when added to others which were in place. What it came down to was that the group footer elements all needed the same size settings as others on the report. It was a bit crazy and I am not completely confident that if I edit the report for any reason in the future that the size settings will hold and compile successfully without manipulation. But for now, I have a solution. Thank you all.
