Posted Full Date argument partially broken

It was marked fixed for the 6.x version, but it persists in 5.x. I hope that I am not completely missing something, but I have narrowed it down quite far.
I have a view set up; as a teaser list, with no fields or filters. It has only 1 argument, "Node: Posted Full Date," which is set to "summary, unsorted."

If I visit the view, with the CCYYMMDD format, it returns zero nodes. If I leave the argument blank, it displays the summary. However, the summary is broken out by month rather than day, and the hyperlinks beneath them are of the CCYYMMD format. As such, they too lead to a page with zero nodes found since the argument is expecting something more.

I followed the 165611 link, but don't feel it pertains to this particular situation since I am not using any filters.

I certainly appreciate your help, and am beginning to wonder if there is a deeper underlying problem that is beyond my grasp.

I set up a test drupal installation, with the views module being the only addition. Still, the argument gives the same results. I have pasted the view export below, if that would help. Also, feel free to visit the page www.bandalag.com/test/test2

I am stuck. Throwing out wild guesses here, but does the PHP version on my server play a role in all of this? Running 5.2.5

Thanks for your help, I will keep tinkering away.

The view:

$view = new stdClass();
$view->name = 'test';
$view->description = '';
$view->access = array (
);
$view->view_args_php = '';
$view->page = TRUE;
$view->page_title = '';
$view->page_header = '';
$view->page_header_format = '1';
$view->page_footer = '';
$view->page_footer_format = '1';
$view->page_empty = '';
$view->page_empty_format = '1';
$view->page_type = 'node';
$view->url = 'test2';
$view->use_pager = FALSE;
$view->nodes_per_page = '10';
$view->sort = array (
);
$view->argument = array (
array (
'type' => 'fulldate',
'argdefault' => '3',
'title' => '',
'options' => '',
'wildcard' => '',
'wildcard_substitution' => '',
),
);
$view->field = array (
);
$view->filter = array (
);
$view->exposed_filter = array (
);
$view->requires = array();
$views[$view->name] = $view;

The MySQL server is 5.0.45. To be honest I don't know what it should be.

I have installed the devel module and set the permissions as you suggested. The part about modifying the argument to be proper is unnerving, to say the least.

One additional note. I tried an additional install of drupal by hand since all of my previous installs had been via fantastico. All of the same problems persist.

Oops. I thought I did that. Done now.

I am going to keep commenting here, if that is OK, just in case somebody else is struggling with the same problem.

After a few tests, I can confirm that the problem lies in the way the date is captured in the views_node.inc file. The last part of "DATE_FORMAT(FROM_UNIXTIME(node.created+$timezone), '%Y%m%%d')", namely %%d, is resolving to zero. Changing it to %Y%m%D fixes the problem, although it obviously adds additional characters to the argument. Not user friendly.

After much fiddling around [I am NOT a programmer] I settled on changing the escape characters a bit. The following has given me the correct results, although I suspect that editing the views_node.inc file is not in my best interest. It will have to do for now, and I will watch this page for alternative solutions.
$fieldinfo['field'] = "DATE_FORMAT(FROM_UNIXTIME(node.created+$timezone), '%Y%m%\d')";