Payroll/Direct Deposit

Hello…..please help!  We use QuickBooks payroll, but when we run the payroll each week, the direct deposits do not go through intuit, we print a report and enter them in a 3rd party banking application.  We have always done this, but for some reason now QB is mad and won’t do a payroll update (taxes won’t calculate and payroll won’t update tax tables) Support says the only way to fix it is to manually go in and “touch” each pay check 3-5 times, and see if that works, we are talking about 1700 payroll checks.  Is there anyway to trick QB into thinking we sent them out? An export perhaps, or a way to quickly change the paychecks marked direct deposit to paper checks to purge this bottle neck it has caused?  We run payroll weekly and today I had to manually calculate payroll tax.  Any creative ideas would be appreciated!  Thank you in advance!