1. It is always good practice to back up your data before proceeding. Back up all years, since this affects prior years too.
2. All those old transactions from prior years can be cleared. You can check the Cleared box for each transaction. If there’s a lot of transactions, it’s easier to select Utilities | System Reconfiguration | Clear Last Year’s Transactions. This not only removes the transaction from the current year’s reconcile screen, it also actually marks the transactions Clr in the prior years.
3. If you find out that some transactions from a prior year actually have not cleared, open that year and change the status to Outstanding. Then go back to the current year reconcile and you will see the outstanding transaction.
4. There appears to be a bug (as of 9/17/08)that uncleared transactions from the later months in the year don’t appear in the earlier months of the current year reconcile. The programmers are looking into this. It may not affect you, since you don’t care about prior years anyway.

- David
FNI Technical Support