I'm pretty sure this is likely
not the problem, but just in case...
The Quick Grouping thing is wonderful except for the few times when it's sandbagged me because I still had my finger on the ctrl key and adjusted something, or I thought I was doing ctrl-something and ended up quick grouping something on all channels instead.
As I said, I doubt this is what's happening in your case, but as it has happened to me maybe it has happened to you.