Knobs Jump In Relative Mode

[CleverConQueso]

Howdy,
I'm finding with some patches that even though my Virus TI Snow with current software (5.0.3 is it?) is set to knob relative mode in the globals, that a knob turn will cause the value in question to jump to 127 or just jump to the knob position. Is it possible that the knob mode is overridden in a patch somewhere or am I just unlucky? I've gotten in the habit of turning my knobs to a low value like 3 and saving them like that because if I set them to 0 then any turn will cause the value to jump to 127. But that trick doesn't work on some patches.
Is anyone else experiencing this or should I just go back to pickup mode and be done with it? That's usually pretty reliable except for some patches which jump to 127 the second you touch the knob too.
Thanks,
-CCQ