Nothing jumps out - but have you tried casting the date field to a varchar or a char? I've had to do that on occasion to get the conversion not to screw up between Oracle and SQL Server. You can always con vert it back on the SQL server side.
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?