Brad
No didn't bother with the users guide. I'm an IT professional and it's not the done thing to read the manual. You get drummed out of of the club if you try
It's not the greatest bit of software I've ever used but it does allow me to schedule my lays. There's probably other tools that do that but I'm not aware of any.
Solved the strange behaviour ploblem I think. I'd unwittingly set the update period to .5 minutes. If I change it to 1 minute or more the problem goes away.
BTW. You know it doesn't work on Oz races don't you?