I think the first thing would be to check to see if Created On Yr/Month is appearing more than once in the tuple. That means that something is trying to get the query engine to use objects from the hierarchy in such a way that the hierarchy is ending up more than once in the tuple, which as you know, would be quite a feat if you could accomplish it. You would need to trace through the report, its queries, and the source model.
You have presumably read the error message. Could you tell us what you understand the error message to mean please. What possible actions to investigate the problem have you identified?