I'm new to figuring out Tasks (etc).

Today is Thursday 7/27/06. I entered a Task this morning and gave it a Start
date of 8/1/06 and a Due date of 8/3/06.

If I go into Calendar and tell it to also show me TaskPad (View - TaskPad)
and tell it to show the TaskPad's next seven days of items (View -TaskPad
View - Show Tasks for Next Seven Days) the Task shows up.

If I go to Tasks and select Simple or Detailed view the Task also shows up.

But if, still in Tasks, I select "Next Seven Days" it does NOT show up.

What's going with that?

Then, later in the same day, I entered a new Task, giving it a Start date
and a due date of Today -- 7/27/06. But when I went into Tasks and
chose to show Active it did two things that were really weird:

1. It did not show the Task has Start and Due dates of today.
2. It did show the Task that has a Start date of 8/1/06 and a Due date of
8/3/06 (it's Reminder is also 8/3/06). (Note that when I choose to show Next
Seven Days this one still fails to show up, which it seems it should do.)

On more experimenting with that Task with a Start and Due date of today that
didn't show up in Active after I created it, well, once I went in and changed
the Start date to yesterday, closed it (which resulted in it showing up in
Active, in red), and then re-opened it and changed the Start date back to
today, then it DID show up under Active. But why didn't it show up under
Active when I first created it and saved with those same settings ten minutes
ago????

Note that I’m quite tech-literate and I can’t see anything I’m doing that
could complicate things. The only thing I’m doing besides the simple settings
I’ve described is to also choose Categories of Business and Personal. The
rest is all plain vanilla default settings.

Is this just an area that's buggy and that shouldn't be relied upon to
function with 100% accuracy? If so I really need to know. If not, what could
be going wrong?

I appreciate the help. Thanks.

Jay