Bank (check acct) reconciliation problem

[Michael Chinn <..hidden..>]

Greetings,

I'm in the midst of putting LSMB into production use for a small 
company.  It's still early in the year so I'm having all the 
transactions entered by hand from the beginning of the year. 
Transactions from the check book register and bank statements were 
entered using the G/L "Add Transaction" function to record each 
transaction individually.

Problem: In January 2 checks were written toward the end of the month 
(on the 28th).  These 2 transactions were recorded on that date of Jan. 
28 via "G/L Add Transaction". However those 2 checks were not 
cashed/cleared until February 8th.

January's bank statement does not show these 2 checks clearing (which is 
correct) but in February's statement the checks show cleared.

When I try to reconcile January I can't get this month to reconcile to 
the bank statement if I exclude these 2 checks. I get an error message. 
 If I include these 2 transactions as clearing in January (which is not 
correct) then it reconciles, which doesn't make sense...

Am I missing something obvious?  Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,
Mike