Thank you. Here is what I ended up doing:
month: DateDiff("m",(DateAdd("d",-1,"01/01/2006")),"07/31/2006")
Instead of the result 1/1/06 - 7/31/06 = 6 months
I took one day off the start day to fully account for all months and thus will return = 7 months.
For my first post, I forsee this...