I have characters and words (following my Chinese university course) in my priority queue, but instead I get other stuff in my lessons.
For example, I just received 友好 (friendly), which is not in my priority list and not even in HSK1. I believe it is shown to me because I have started learning 友 and 好, so it starts giving me the compounds – instead of picking up the next item from the priority queue!
Edit: I tried fixing this by setting the “Daily Dictionary Limit” to 0, but the problems remains.