So I had a tech come out (per the CSR - if rebooting doesn't work, it has to be replaced). He said "I don't know anything about these. We had one in the shop, but I've never used it." They guy couldn't even get to the timers without my help. In the end, he left without doing anything at all... not a big help. So since then, I've been able to reproduce my issue:
1. Delete all timers, reboot system. Everything looks good.
2. Go to Dish Remote Access, set recording defaults in preferences online - No padding, keep 3 episodes, keep until space is needed.
3. Begin setting up new recordings *on line*. Go to "Later" - find the show I want recorded, select Record New or Record All, depending on the show. I put in my top 5 shows for testing.
4. Verified things on the DVR - everything looked perfect, except I noticed that it was set to keep All Episodes instead of 3. I took note, but didn't touch things there.
5. Went back to Dish Remote Access and set all 5 shows to keep only 3 episodes by editing each manually under "timers" on-line.
6. Verified things on the DVR - problem was back. Every show I edited online was now incorrectly showing up as one of the other shows.
Can anyone please try this with theirs (Take a backup first ;-) and let me know if you have any issues? I guess the next step for me is to perform a master reset and start from scratch - but I don't have a spare hard drive to save my shows off to at the moment.
How frustrating...