specifying Date criteria

From: David (David_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:31:03 -0700

Hi,
I want to select records based on date which is a field that look like this:
 xx/xx/xxxx.
I specified this as criteria in Design View: <"06/15/2003"
But it does'nt work.
Access does not recognize the field as a date.
Thanks for any help on this.

David