Brudle...
So THAT'S what those little padlock icons on the comp track represent! LOL...you are correct, all the transient editing occurred on the original tracks rather than the comp tracks...but I deleted the comp tracks once the transient editing was complete and I was getting random dual hits, regenerated the comp track, but that did not solve the problem.
What DID solve the problem was installing the X3e patch. Turns out (though I found no documentation to confirm this) that it was a bug in the original version. Rendered version I did after the patch install was complete sounded awesome.
Thank you for your response, though. I now need to go in search of how to unlock the comp track, as I have a couple of edits that need to be tweaked.