While using the section wizard with Auto Detect New Ones and either Countries or US States and with Individual Mode and Individual Band selected, I noticed that it was selecting a number of Q's for which I had received cards and had entered the Q as confirmed. Confirmed Q's would not be new ones..so something seemed wrong.
I traced this down to Q's for which Valid had Mixed checked but Mode unchecked. These Q's were also later than 1974, where I would have expected Mode to be checked. See the ARRL DXCC rules regarding CW prior to 1975 as to instances where mode would correctly be unselected. Further I found that all the 'offending' Q's were from mid 1998, and were all contest Q's. The best I can figure is that during that time an ADIF import resulted in a number of Q's with valid mode unchecked. I don't know why this would be, it didn't happen in later ADIF imports. Since thousands of Q's were potentially involved correcting this problem might have been time consuming, however I was able to isolate these Q's using Access-97 and hand correct the roughly 100 Q's which had the error. To see if your log also has these errors, do the selection wizard process I describe, and print out the selected Q's in screen format to see if it includes confirmed Q's, or better yet use Access-97, and sort on the valid column to see if you have al number of '1's after 1974 which represent mixed selected and mode unselected. Ron N5IN
