Unbelievable Piece of Crap!

Grrr.

I am failing miserably at a design for the first time in a long time and I'm not handling it very well.

It's my first time having to include UPC codes on a product label, and I can't seem to get it right.  I just got word from my client that the code didn't scan properly. And I'll be !*(&@^# damned if I can figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong.

AUGH!

Does anyone out there have experience in designing pieces with bar codes? Or know anyone else who does? I am seriously at my wit's end. I don't know what to do and don't want to let my client down. I HATE looking like such an idiot.

In the "old" days, when I used to have to do USPS bar coding for return mail cards, I just measured each bar and recreated it "by hand." Now I'm using this UPC font, which should be making this so much easier, but somewhere, somehow I'm screwing up.

If anyone knows anything or anyone that could help, I would greatly appreciate it!

P.S. - Here is the bar code discrepancy referenced waaaaay down in the follow-up comments. Past all the cake and garlic sea salt. :)

If you click to enlarge, it'll be easier to see.