Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

Hi again ... another problem, another question...

Are the 32 presets in the BCR2000 separate from each other?  

My BCR2000 came preloaded with a selection of 14 presets - most of them of no use to me.  The first pre-set was the Behringer "All Rotary Controls" patch so I copied this preset into the first 6 preset spaces as I was going to modify these for various VSTs.

I kept preset 1 (all rotary) as my blank to map the functions in Ableton Live 8.  I had heaps of trouble getting BCR and Ableton to talk to each other but eventually got them to communicate (btw - the only way to get them to talk was using a midi-USB cable ... ableton wouldn't recognise the BCR if it was connected only via USB and the BCR in USB mode).

I had to manually map the Ableton functions to the BCR...  Initially, I got Ableton to do a midi dump which the BCR picked up... Unfortunately, this map layout was limited to only 8 Ableton tracks which were assigned to the bottom row of rotary dials plus a few buttons assigned to transport functions... not very useful - that's why i had to manually map Ableton.

Anyway, I assigned various controllers to various functions in Preset #1, saved the changes as per the manual and so far so good.... it worked very well.  I wanted to then use Preset #2 (which also contained the All Rotary preset) to map different functions in Ableton such as VSTs. I switched to preset 2 only to find that all of the controls I mapped in preset 1 were also in preset 2!!!  I couldn't re-map preset 2 without altering preset 1 (I didn't check out the other presets.... should have done this in hindsight)

Worse than this, the mapping in preset 1 disappeared after I switched everything off and re-booted ... I think the map might still be in preset 1 but it wont control Ableton.  How do I know if it saved?

Anyway - I suppose my question is whether all of the presets are separate from each other.  I tried using two different presets within the same software ie. same software (ableton) and two maps - but this didnt work... should it work or have I got it completely wrong?

LASTLY - for those of you who use the BCR2000 with Ableton Live 8 - how are you connecting the two together?  I can't get 100% reliability between the two and can't figure out if it's a user problem (ie. ME!!) or there's something wrong with the controller or Ableton.  Can you please tell me the cable you use ie. USB only or USB-Midi, the BCR mode and importantly, the Ableton Midi preferences (what do you switch on/off).

God I hate computers

thanks for your help and patience!!!!!!!!!!!!!
daz