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

I have tried evrything I can think of and I have posted a couple of 
times about this one.

What comes out of the main outs is not what comes outa da cans!
I am using a mackie mixer and am pluging my headphones directly in to 
the XL and then into the Mackie and there is a huge diference and i 
am not talking about a mild texture difference.  The fx are different 
and all the sounds that I am playing off my E5000 through the returns 
on the XL are in mono.  Any of you E-MU boys have any ideas on this 
one?  I made my own cords and they seem to be working fine.

The other thing that I dont get is why when i use the song mode 
things are always just wack!  the track mutes are all outa wack and 
the tempo will change and other odd things pop up with no 
predictability as far as i am concerned.  Shoud i not just be able to 
select the patterns that i want to play in the right order and select 
all the changes to come from the patterns save and hit play?

I don't get what is going on with either of thies things and i have 
been trying to figure them out for some time now.

HELP!


P.s. the new OS do what i need it to.  Thank you again for making it 
happen ya EMUians. :)

peace 

Mike