Strangeness in register "balance" column

[Dave Peticolas]

Mike Sabin writes:
> I am encountering some odd behavior in the balance column of the register
> for my checking account.  A few weeks ago, I duplicated several transactions
> of a recurring nature, and entered them in advance, without check numbers and
> with an estimated date.  Now those transactions have come to pass, and I have
> gone back and entered the actual date I paid each of the transactions, and
> entered the actual check numbers for these transactions.  The balance column
> is now displaying odd behavior, as if the transactions weren't sorted 
> properly.  For example the balance shown at the end of a certain transaction
> might be, say, $1,000.  The next transaction shown in the register is a 
> check for $50, but the balance shown at the end of this transaction is, say,
> $798.00.  None of the sorting options given in the Register -> SortOrder 
> menu seem able to solve the problem.  By comparing the balance amounts for 
> the various transactions with the transactions themselves, I can see that 
> it's not that the amounts listed in the balance column are utter gibberish.
> The balance amounts are correct, just for the wrong transactions.  It seems
> to me that the balance calculations have somehow not been updated when I 
> updated other parts of the transaction.  Am I making sense here, or am I
> just being an idiot?
> 
> Bottom line: if my balance is $1000 before a $50 transaction, my balance 
> should show $950 after it, assuming standard sort order.  Right?

You're making sense, and you're right, standard sort order should
show the balances you describe.

What version of gnucash are you using?

If you close the register and re-open it, are the balances still wrong?
What if you save and reload?

dave