UBE not reading Processing Options (new report)

After I made a new report, we decided to add processing options to it. I created the PO template, hooked it into the report, the report designer recognizes all of the PO variable names, and I set all of the areas that needed to see the PO values. BUT... when I run the report (locally on dev client), the report never 'sees' the values I set in the PO template (the UBE reads null as seen in debugger).

Things I tried to resolve:
1. Relog JDE
2. checked in/out all objects
3. Did a build/deploy...

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