For scroll lock being enabled on boot, I found this:
 
1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:

To change the behavior for currently logged in user:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard
To change the behavior for all users:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard

3. Now in right-side pane, change value of "InitialKeyboardIndicators" string value to any of following:

0 - Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)
1 - Turn CapsLock On
2 - Turn NumLock On
3 - Turn CapsLock and NumLock On
4 - Turn ScrollLock On
5 - Turn CapsLock and ScrollLock On
6 - Turn NumLock and ScrollLock On
7 - Turn all indicators On (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)

scook
I can give you a couple of autohotkey scripts which can be bound to just about anything on the keyboard and/or mouse to provide mouse wheel functions but that is all I got for wacky track ball replacement.

hmm... not sure if that would work because it might not solve the problem where certain modules won't allow me to hook into them for scrolling. However when I attach a mouse scrolling ALWAYS works so maybe it would circumvent whatever weirdness is going on preventing the pg up/down.
 
I think I just remembered figuring out another workaround in the fall about this so lemme see if I can remember tomorrow when I'm in front of the DAW. If not I'll hit ya up. Thanks. man.

John
I think I call it Stationary Now Time with Background scrolling. It doesn't roll off the tongue nicely. 

I call it "Smooth Scrolling" because I'm pretty sure that's what the option was named in my old DAW. It's been a loooong time since I fired that bugger up though. I really should so I can yank a bunch of my old files off of there.
 

brundlefly
For scroll lock being enabled on boot, I found this:
 
1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:

To change the behavior for currently logged in user:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard
To change the behavior for all users:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard

3. Now in right-side pane, change value of "InitialKeyboardIndicators" string value to any of following:

0 - Turn all indicators Off (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)
1 - Turn CapsLock On
2 - Turn NumLock On
3 - Turn CapsLock and NumLock On
4 - Turn ScrollLock On
5 - Turn CapsLock and ScrollLock On
6 - Turn NumLock and ScrollLock On
7 - Turn all indicators On (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock)

Uh oh... that sounds tech-y and scary. lol
 
Thanks though. I might give it a try. It's really not a HUGE deal because I just have to toggle the ScrollLock key but I never fail to forget about it until it ticks me off. I just find it weird that that one option in Sonar is bound to one of the few keys that has an on/off state and it just happens to default to the option that annoys me.

Can't you set/clr Scroll,Numlock key in most bios setups?
I have 3 desktops and they all have this ability in the bios.
I just checked one of my laptops and it is there too.

No, Platinum doesn't scroll like you want it too. Just like in X3.