Spoke too soon. Went to a terminal, loaded emacs -q and then loaded 
org-ocllector.el. It worked as advertised. Then loaded emacs 
("normally") and org-collector.el did not yield expected results,

So I will check my .emacs

Charlie Millar

On 04/17/2015 06:43 PM, Charles Millar wrote:
> I have attempted to use org-collector. Each time, including the 
> example at
> [Search domain orgmode.org] 
> <https://duckduckgo.com/?q=org%2Dcollector%20worg+site:orgmode.org>orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector-example.html 
> <http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-collector-example.html>
> all columns except ITEM evaluate to the default error. The ITEM column 
> does evaluate as expected.
>
> GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
> of 2015-03-07 on binet, modified by Debian
>
> Org: 8.3beta release_8.3beta-1030-g65bbb1
>
> Charlie Millar
>
>
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