Elektron Musical Instruments

hi all!

i'm brand-new to the group, and to the MM SFX60 MKII, so bear with me
if i'm asking a silly question. i've been studying the manual for an
hour or two tonite, and i'm not finding a solution (or cause) to my
problem.

thus far, i have created a single pattern that i'm happy with, and
it's stored at "E01". it contains a simple kick drum, and a bassline.
that's it. now, after having tweaked the pitch, the filter, the wave
data (Unison, all that good stuff), i've used the save function in the
global menu to store my kit. as i understand it, the MM stores pattern
data (notes and such) automatically, while "patch" edits (cutoff, LFO,
sample rate reduction, etc.), must be saved within a kit.

anyway, all of that goes according to plan. where i begin to veer off
the tracks is here: i switch to a different pattern, any of the
factory "preset" patterns, and let it play (A01, for example). while
it's playing, i attempt to queue up my own pattern (E01), so it will
play immediately following. well, it loads up and begins play, but the
specific edits i've done (filter, pitch, LFOs, etc.) are never loaded,
so while the note and step data is correct, everything else sounds
completely different than what i originally programmed. to make things
more confusing, if i attempt to "screw around" with my pattern a bit
(pushing the step keys, sometimes just selecting the track itself), my
original edits magically reappear and everything within the currently
selected track goes back to how it was when i last saved. i have to do
this for both my bass and drum tracks separately in order to return
them to normal. as soon as i queue up a different pattern and come
back, it does the same thing all over again.

before you ask, i am certain i have saved, as i've gone thru this
about 10 times now, trying to figure out what's causing this. i can
always get my edited tracks back, but only after the aforementioned
fiddling. to condense my previous example, if i load up A01 and then
B08 and then come back to A01, it sounds just as it did a moment ago.
if i do this with my pattern (E01 to B08 and then back), it sounds
screwed up.

is there some really obvious step i'm missing? i've not gotten my head
around Parameter Locks and all of that yet, but i can't imagine that
that's my problem. anyone care to shed some light on this? 

thanks very much for any help you all can provide!