Excluding Dates with Views

This may be an issue with the rudimentary functionality of views and the date API and not fixable, but: I have created a content type that allows you to create an unlimited number of from/to dates (I am not using repeating date functionality) to the content type. You could consider these dates as times the item is "un-available". Using views I have created an exposed filter so that users can select a date to show all nodes that are available on a specified date. Result I was expecting was for the view to hide all of the nodes that contained the date that the user chose.

However, instead of hiding all of the nodes that include the date specified by the user, views will list the node as many times as date entries it contains less one if it contains the date specified. (was that confusing?) If I tell views to prevent duplicates this will still result in every node being listed.

I suppose this use of filtering out nodes with specific dates works great if the node only has one date - but I need to be able to specify multiples.

Thanks