[MacBerry]

Reading your description again, I think you are in contexts mode, grouped by project? I can re-produce in that view:

- just because you entered it under a project doesn't automatically give it that project (it should do IMHO).

- Check your settings in preferences>data>cleanup. I think that iof you have that set to both project and context, it'll assume the item should stay in the inbox until you give it both. Hitting cleanup somehow tells it to accept the data as is, while not doing and navigating away causes it to assume it's not yet a fully processed item.

Very confusing.