Illustrator :: Exports Nothing Blank Image?

I've got a million years experience with PS, PSP, various CAD programs. This is actually more of a drafting project but that shouldn't matter. I've got separate layers for certain guides and lines and text and that's about it. So I need to send something out for review.
 
Export or Save As as [ANYTHING], pdf, png, jpg, 'web,' even tried swf, creates a correct -size- image, but the only -content- is the one -last- -layer- that I created which happened to be text.
 
So just for fun I deleted that last layer and now it exports a blank image of the correct size.
 
I tried specifically Selecing the items I want exported, result = same blank image.
 
I don't see any 'flatten' type function as in PS that might crunch everything down to one layer.
 
I've aparently got something either enabled or disabled that tells it to 'draw nothing.'
 
I don't see any facility here to include an ai file with this Q. I could put it up somewhere else but I rather doubt they'll allow a '*.ai' so would have to go through the renaming stuff both upload and download. And if they have an 'file inspector' of any kind it'll be disallowed anyway.