nope. and it's just getting weirder.

when i was testing the plugins, i didn't bother setting the eq on the tracks - what difference would that make? i was testing the plugins. but i decided that if i'm going to test all the plugins, i should set the file up in a permanent state...

instantly broke.

in order to do that, i had to copy a single file over that had my eq presets in it.

so, i deleted the user file again and tried with random, factory presets. this time it nulled.

so, i went into the xml file and manually copied the presets over. broken.

running a compare of the files in notepad++ indicates that the only real difference is the numbers. this seems to be screwing something up.

i'm going to try again, by constructing the eq presets by hand rather than copying them over and see what happens.

once again, i'm proving that anything that could possibly be broken is broken.

i'm pretty sure i'll fix the problem before i have to decompile the program, but damn...