Record Count Issue / Usage Details

Went into our usage details this morning and saw that we had 85,000 records of 100,000 available.

In order to reduce the number of records, I did a backup and downloaded and exported the application as a file and then proceeded to delete 2 years worth of our oldest orders in the system to see how much this would reduce the record count.

After deleting these "orders" and refreshing the usage details, our record count went UP by 10,000 records to 95,000/100,000.

It's not possible that we input 10,000 records in a matter of 10 minutes time.

What could cause this increase?

I was thinking that the action of deleting these orders might create additional records in an audit log etc.???

Live Support hasn't been able to help.

Thanks in advance,

Dustin