I know I'm so Sonar 8 by why does snap...

change on me every time I do something? I set the snap setting to 1/16 note, I go into the PRV to edit MIDI, it changes to 1/8

Each view has an independent snap to grid setting IIRC. So if you set the snap to grid to 1/16 in the track view, that doesn't mean that the snap to grid setting in the PRV will be 1/16.
 
Maybe this is your problem or maybe i'm not remembering correctly and its a bug.
 
Cj

X2? Yeah, that's the time ruler Zoom Snap feature thingy and it kind of sucks. I have yet to look up how to turn it off. 

I think you'll find it is the "Smart Grid" doing it's thing, which I love BTW.

To turn it off left click and hold on the resolution selector and uncheck the "Smart grid" option. You can then set your preferred resolution which won't change.

Remember that you can now set a secondary snap. Just hold N down while choosing parameters. You can then call it up by either holding down the N key and then releasing for just a temporary change, or pressing ctrl+shift+N for a permanent change.

I have one set as the smartgrid and the other set to a fixed setting (which depends on my screenset). I think it's great once you used to it. YMMV of course
 
PRV also has it's own snap setting that can be set and turned on or off by the controls toward the top right of the PRV. The global snap needs to be on for that to work, it's a snap over ride rather than independent of the global snap.

Finally each screenset can have its own snap if you wish but you need to set a variable in the ini file. IncludeSnapInScreenset=1

HTH.

Thanks guys. That helps me as far as the snap goes. I wonder what's up with my now time marker on the track view? Like I said while editing in a song last night, I would navigate away from the PRV to the track view and the Now Time Marker would be totally gone. So when playing my song there is literally no Now Time Marker showing me where I am. No vertical line, nothing. Anyone else have that? A bug or some other setting I'm missing?

There's something else going on.  I just installed X2 last night and this morning worked with PRV for the first time.  I had smart grid on, PRV snap set to 16th, but in PRV couldn't snap to anything but Measures.  Then I turned smart grid off, and set global snap to measures, and still PRV was snapping to measures even though it's snap was on 16ths.  The only way I could get PRV to snap to 16ths is when I set the global snap to 16ths.   

To change the default snap set it up how you want it and then overwrite the template using "save as.... type template".

That trick works for a whole load of settings BTW.