Thanks for your thoughts Tweakhead. I may actually give CTRLR a shot again and try out posting over there... that hadn't occured to me before you posted and it seems like a good idea.
Regarding section locks: the good news is that they do work as advertised. The bad news is that there are no section locks available for the "common" parameters like soft knobs and category classification... only "synth" paramaters like FX, Arp, Mod Matrix, etc. Still, using them is a massive timesaver for those paramaters - especially if you want several patches to have similar vanilla Mod Matrix or FX settings.
