Barry and John, I think the watchdog signal is there and A-Okay - since the PS2.0 engines are staying quiet until addressed.
Gregg - all my engines (PS2.0 and PS3.0) come up in conventional on the VAR channels set to Fixed. Its these latest PS3.0 engines coming up pre-maturely on both FXD channels that is puzzling. Does anyone have MTH's latest batch of PS3.0 steamers to try out to verify?