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From rdarlin2:
EDIT: RESOLVED/ANSWERED:
Further googling provided the answer - in Excel 2007, all pivot tables from the same data use by default the same data cache - which creates the issue. The instructions to handle this can be found here: http://www.pivot-table.com/grouping/pivot-table-grouping-affects-another-pivot-table