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Why bad realtime results?



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Hi gang,

I started running a new intra-day system realtime via
Tradestation 2000i + Dynastore + quote.com.  After a
several days of running it, I am getting a disturbing
result.  Yesterday, for instance, my realtime strategy
and corresponding indicator was flat the whole day. 
Today, after rebooting, I loaded the same exact system
using the same data (except now historical).  It
claims to have given me a nice sell signal midday,
just before the nasdaq tanked.  In fact, the realtime
signal/indicator are totally different!

Have others noticed anything like this?  At first I
thought it might be due to precision errors.  But I am
not sure that make sense since I thought the chart is
recalculated each bar from scratch.  

Note that Tradestation had been running for 3 days
straight and, moreover, I was doing overnight
optimizations in other workspaces during this time. 
Generate orders for next bars is checked.  Becktesting
resolution is unchecked.  

I am very perplexed as to what I should do.  I suppose
I could re-start Tradestation 2000i every 15 minutes
or so.  Is anyone else doing this as a workaround to
this problem?  Does anyone have any suggestions?  
Would this same problem occur in Tradestation Pro?  

Confused,
Jack