Issue with Visual Editor and Reports

This may be a bit hard to describe, but here it goes.
I have a report where I have 3 fields, Customer, Cost and Days. There are a number of other fields that are included in the reports search page but not shown. For Cost I have a Sum and a Average, for days just an average. The report is Grouped on the customer.
The default report is about 4 lines long for each customer (summary only). I have been attempting to cut this down to a single line per customer. After doing so in visual editor the boxes for Show come unchecked on the "Report:Totals" wizard page, rechecking them messes up all of the work I had done on visual editor.
I have even attempted to do the editing in HTML mode making sure none of the control elements {begin...} are removed. This did not help.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there an easier way using reports to get everything on a single line?
For the moment I have gone back to using a list and the Group by sql method. This isn't as nice as the reports, but it cuts down on the paper.