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Without going into too-much detail, the easy solution is to create an 'opposing' journal entry for every incorrect entry in all accounts that have been affected, in much the same way that a credit note was raised for the original invoice (if I read your post correctly?). i.e. The customer/debtor invoice was raised as a Dr entry, so create a Cr journal entry for the same customer/debtor to cancel the original posting. The other 'half' of this journal will be a Dr entry into the correct customer/debtor account, effectively raising the original invoice.
Work through each of the incorrect entries methodically, and you should eventually have a journal entry to correct all of the previous mistakes.
If the credit note was raised on the wrong account, just do the opposite of the above, i.e. Dr the account that has/had the credit note, and Cr the account that should have received it.
This may be the more long-winded method, but is the easiest to follow.
I'm assuming you are using SAGE or similar? If so, and you are confident enough, you can enter the journals in any order you wish; all the debits then all the credits, vice-versa, or any-which-way, and they will all go where they are supposed to!
Remember they will probably be sequentially-numbered by the software package, and for future reference I find that entering them as you were trained (or may have been) - Dr then Cr, Dr then Cr, and so-on - is the best, neatest and easiest, and the least-likely way of making further errors.
Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs.
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