When entering a date without a year, it assumes that the year you want is the current year.  While most of the time this makes sense, around the end/beginning of the year this behavior becomes annoying when entering transactions for the neighboring year.  For instance, today (12/31/2008), I entered a transaction that I will complete on 1/2/2009. But since I only entered 1/2, it assumed I meant 1/2/2008 (as a result, I had to scroll all the way up to January 2008 to correct it).  I think it would be much less likely that somebody would be entering a transaction from 1/2/2008 that late in the year.  Likewise, assume it is 1/5/2009 and I forgot to enter a transaction on 12/29/2008; when I go to enter it as 12/29, it will think I mean 12/29/2009.  I think it would be feasible to assume the closer instance of the date, or at least assume the closer date if it falls within a certain time from the current date (e.g. within 3 months)

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