Fixed Assets - Calc of monthly depreciation charge after GRIR clearing

Hi all,
For a particular asset in our company - this asset was to be written off in November 2005.
GRIR clearing was done on asset xxx in September and then reversed in the same month.
The net effect on the asset value was zero but this caused SAP to recalculate the depreciation charge from the start of the year. It appears to have ignored the reversal and wants to write back amount x(months Jan to Aug) and charge amount y(chg for Sep). Also for some reason this has appeared in November and not September, the month of posting the GRIR clearing.
The asset in question should have reached the end of it's useful life in November but the re-calculation of depreciation would have resulted in depreciation being charged for a further 7 months in 2006. The manual work around was to change the depreciation key to xxxx to force SAP to calculate the "expected" charge for November. This has worked in this particular instance but is not ideal, running depreciation run again is not the solution to this type of problem.
User wants to know if using the MR11 transaction (GRIR reversal for PO)will always cause SAP to re-calculate depreciation from the start of the year.
Sorry for long post - have tried to give as many details as possible.
Any ideas / comments /thoughts - please do reply
Many thanks in advance
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