Ron,
Your statements seem conflicting... or am I interpreting them incorrectly? How can they be preserved yet reset to defaults?
There's no conflict at all.
It preserves settings from Shut Down to Startup - of the lashup, without Starting Up a member engine by itself in-between.
You do all know that if you startup a lashup member, shut it down, and then startup and run the lashup, all of the member engine, settings are reset to lashup defaults, correct? - when the lashup is Shut Down and then a member engine is Started Up.