Cheque writer process issue

In payroll International HRMS i have defined 2 payment methods with 2 different currencies.
USD - BG currency
KSH - Kenyian Shilling
There are 50 employees attached to the USD currency payment method and 800 employees are attached to KSH currency payment method.
Now when i run the cheque writer process i do not select the payment method for this parameter.So to my understanding the should give me a total of 850 employees. But it doesn't do so it only displays 50 employee that have the payment method currency of USD. How can the other 800 employee appear on the following screen :
Navigation :- (N)View>(N)Payroll Process Results>
Action Type =Cheque Writer click on Find
then click on Assignment Process Button.. this is where i am able to see only 50 employees and not all the 850 employees.
All your comments are welcomed!
please help me!
Edited by: 594647 on Jul 15, 2009 5:07 PM

gurus what could be the reason of other employees not getting attached to the payment method while the prepayment process has run sucessfully 800 employees ?
all your comments are welcomed!

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