Ok guys, was having a discussion about this in irc today, we did some testing, and found a startling discovery!
Since the move of channels from 8.6 to 8.10 , channel numbers seemed to have dropped off during blind scans. Today I renamed my ECHO 8.6/Ku to ECHO 8.10/Ku. I then deleted all channels on that sat, and re blind scanned. To my surprise, Channel totals went from 291 to 398. This is pretty solid evidence as I performed a blind scan yesterday on that sat. So try it, just make sure your caps and spelling is exactly in the same format as I have shown you in this message, it will effect your echostar package, and could effect sort by sid, not sure on that.
Depending on you're receiver, just go into the installation settings and rename a sat from there. Or get the most current bin which has the renamed sats. (for pansats anyway)