R help - Nov 2012 - Problem to fetch data from access using odbc connection

Hi all, apologies that I could not give any reproducible example, 
however I think that following should be okay to explain my problem.

Basically I have an Access database (for time series data) I want to use 
to R to analysis the data. Following is my code:

 > library(RODBC)
 > connect <- odbcConnectAccess("f:/DB/DB.mdb")
 > Dat1 <- sqlQuery(connect, paste("select * from Tab1"))
 > head(Dat1)
   ID       date       V1        V2        V3       V4      V5 V6        V7
1  1 2010-11-09 834250.6 -16108789 -632484.8 63081.40 4458523 2555456 
-207267.0
2  2 2010-11-10 851517.3 -16119263 -628400.6 54481.96 4479238 2567500 
-214460.7
3  3 2010-11-11 775105.3 -15463394 -629370.5 53396.52 4076683 2343576 
-207286.9
4  4 2010-11-12 792074.1 -15849460 -596806.3 56880.91 4344089 2491808 
-208978.8
5  5 2010-11-13 786891.4 -15607995 -669157.0 58312.70 4197971 2414737 
-210574.0
6  6 2010-11-14 781071.8 -15727322 -658322.0 56193.81 4277270 2462926 
-211688.3


So far so good. However if I want to fetch data based on 'date', I am 
getting error. Below are my tries:

 > sqlQuery(connect, paste("select * from Tab1 where date <
2010-11-10"))
[1] ID   date V1   V2   V3   V4   V5   V6   V7
<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
 > sqlQuery(connect, paste("select * from Tab1 where date <
'2010-11-10'"))
[1] "22018 -3030 [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Data type 
mismatch in criteria expression."
[2] "[RODBC] ERROR: Could not SQLExecDirect 'select * from Tab1 where 
date < '2010-11-10''"


Can somebody here help me with right code?

Thanks and regards,