I just ran an MRP today and I noticed that the quantities in the 'On Hand' and the 'MRP Beginning Balance' arent the same.  Also the value in the beginning balance has 3 asterisks behind it.
 
In the past the values have always been the same and I have never seen the asterisks behind the MRP value.  This variance seems to be affecting the upcoming transactions.
 
Is there a new default or switch that I need to change or were there some changes made in a recent update that could be causing this problem?

Cyndee, thanks for the info.  I'll rerun MR-F and see if that takes care of my problem.

I thought the asterisks appear when the beginning balance has been rounded to a whole number.  Are you talking about decimal differences or whole number differences?
 
There is a flag in SD-D to set whether you want MRP beginning balance to round to next whole number or not.

It is possible it is a location issue.  Bring up IN-A for one of the items showing  a discrepancy and check the On Hand on the first screen, then click Locations and check that on hand

If you should have only 1 Location, UT-K-E will take the quantity from the IN-A screen and rebuild the single Location file with that value.  Sounds like that is what you need to do.  And make sure you install the 3/26 update, the underlying problem is fixed.