OFX Importer and Transaction Matcher

[Berck E. Nash]

I converted to GnuCash from Quicken some months ago and have found the 
GnuCash transaction matcher to be less than adequate.  It makes some 
really bad choices when it comes to matching transactions.  Sometimes it 
ignores check numbers (which should be a GIVEN match), it matches things 
with different amounts but similar names...  How can a transaction be a 
match if they're different amounts?!?

I've been unable to find out if I can do anything to tweak the way the 
matching works, but have been content to go through and manually fix all 
its mistakes until recently.

The last couple of weeks I've been unable to match some transactions 
manually!  The transaction matcher only presents the wrong transactions 
as choices, and doesn't display the correct ones!  It seems like ANY 
uncleared transaction should be a candidate for a match, particularily 
transactions with the same check numbers and amounts!

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Should I check and/or file a bug report?