Think I responded on this too soon.
Last paragraph of the blog indicates a problem still:
******************************
# Zac Woodall said on August 29, 2007 12:41 PM:
Rex: see my previous comment in this post. We're aware of the PDF issue. It looks like there is a bug that our testing failed to catch and we're actively investigating it. Sorry for ths inconvenience this is causing!
On Reports in the runtime, you should be able to get to the filtering functionality on the right click menu. By default, runtime mode does not show the filtering buttons at the top of Access. You can add your own button to open the filter dropdown, or you can customize the ribbon to add the filtering buttons back using custom ribbonX.
HTH!
*********************************
Was August 29th... So far cannot find anything more on it.
John