A Quickbooks / Bank Rant after a frustrating session

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As most of you know, I hate the bookkeeping part of my business. I was almost at peace with Quickbooks, and then my bank was bought out by another bank. I loved my old bank and never had a problem with them. But there's been nothing but problems since the new bank took over. First, I was one of the unlucky ones whose account number with the old bank duplicated one in the new bank, so the old bank customers with duplicate accounts all had to get new account numbers. At one point the old account dumped all that was left of it into the new account. I thought I'd finally have some of things that were wrong straightened out, but that won't work now. The second time I downloaded my bank information into Quickbooks( today), it did some peculiar data downloading stuff it's never done in the past before my account information was downloaded. Then when I finally got the data downloaded from my account, it insisted the transactions didn't match the Quickbooks register,which I had just updated very carefully in the usual way. I had just painstakingly made the deposits into my register so they would match the downloads, so they were no longer in the undeposited funds. Quickbooks wouldn't let me add the transactions because they didn't match, and I couldn't add the deposits without removing all the deposits I had so carefully entered in so they would match. QB insisted I had to redo them in order to make things match. That's what I hate about Quickbooks. About the only thing it's good for since this bank change is keeping track of which bills are due and who owes me money. I give up on the online banking. I may as well do it all manually. That's better than doing it twice because Quickbooks is confused. Software is so arbitrary! I have hated Quickbooks for a long time, and since this bank change it's impossible to get it straightened out. Thanks for letting me rant. I know the solution is to undo everything I did that I have always had to do in the past before downloading. That involved taking the money from undeposited funds in QBs and making a deposit into my register with it. The idea is that when I download the bank data, it should than match what's in the QBs register. That removes the money from undeposited funds. After I did the download QBs for some reason couldn't see all the data I had manually entered in that register and wanted me to make each deposit in the same way I had before to get it to match. But since I'd already done it, the money was no longer there to repeat this. So the only way to fix it so QBs is happy would be to delete an hour's work and do it again. The rebel in me refuses. If it were a person I were dealing with I'd be insisting he do it right. But what can you say to a stupid computer program that downloaded something to foul everything up and didn't tell me?