Reecording stock buys

[Richard]

I'm truly confused about recording stock transactions. And, for that
matter, the way Gnucash handles stocks and brokerage accounts.


If I have a brokerage account, would I set up two accounts in gnucash
(one for cash and one for stocks). The way the sample accounts are set
up seems to imply that I'd have an account for each different stock
within my brokerage account. 

When buying a stock, how do I record it the purchase and the commission?
I tried making the appropriate entries under Shares and price, but
gnucash likes to calculate the result then replace shares with that
result and the price with "1". It's just weird. Do I use a split
transaction to record the commission? 


-- 
Richard <Solar.Debris at Verizon.net>