Adjustments to Import and Export

There are 2 tiny issues in my work with Sonar that are really painful. Both of them concerning the import/export of tracks.
 
1. For each song I use to save my unmixed recorded tracks for backup purpose, so that I am able to create a new mixing project of the same song from scratch. But using Sonar's exporting function I have always the problem that if I don't explicitly select the track from the start position (Edit > Select > From=Start) before the export, then the resulting wave file begins anywhere in the song. This makes no sense to me, because a bunch of exported tracks must always be in sync, i.e. starting at the same position. Thus it should be the default that "from start" is used for track export.
 
2. Sometimes I am also recording with a Tascam 2488neo mobile recorder and I am used to store stereo tracks as 2 mono wave files (left and right). Each of them is assigned to a specific track number. I prefer also having 2 mono files for wave edits outside of Sonar (such as hard limiting some peaks on MIDI instrument tracks). 
The problem is now that Sonar does not have the possibility to import 2 mono files (a left and right) to a single stereo track. I know that there are possibilities to solve that manually, but they are all neither elegant nor efficient.