Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I wonder if anyone can help? I asked this on the Proteus 2000 forum but 
they suggested the expertise was over here.

I always have problems with my P25K and patches, the confusion between 
patches used for patterns, songs and multis. Ideally I'd love a way to 
tell it to never loads patches for songs or patterns but I don't see a 
way for that.

I tend to use 32 channels - 16 for internal song and pattern stuff, 16 
for use with an external sequencer (Sequentix P3). So all I want is to 
load a multi that contains the 32 channels I'll need for my combined 
song using both sequencers. Trouble is I frequently make a mistake, load 
either a song, pattern or multi in the wrong order or save in the wrong 
order and end up with my multi pointing to the wrong patches. My 
problems are compounded by the fact that the P25K defaults to saving at 
the last position it saved to, not the last location loaded from but I 
guess that's just the way it is... :(

How does anyone else deal with this?

Also, I can change multis using remote bank select but this only seems 
to respond to MIDI channel 1, which is weird. Perhaps because there is 
no "multi control" channel that I can see. I keep almost giving up on 
the P25K sequencer but it's so damn useful that I stick with it. I've 
read the manual and it seems to imply that songs/patterns only load 
patches for which tracks are assigned - but I don't find this to be 
true, unless I'm doing something wrong? Iuse 1-16A for the internal 
sequencer, 1-16B for external.

Any tips gratefully received,

Paul