Thanks Art I'll look for the Clock.
And thanks to Bruce, I was trying to remember who it was who had chimed in on other threads..
The thing is Home Studio is different than Plat in that one big way, no screensets, and the behaviour is different.
Generally old projects open the way I want them to, But the time lag is due to Sonar redrawing the window.
When the project first opens it will very briefly look the way it did when last saved, Then things start jumping around, closing, opening and 10-20 seconds later the project settles down and looks fine. This is not an issue when working on projects as 20 seconds is OK, One example is HS doesn't have a synth rack. So it's doen't know what to do when loading a Splat project that had the synth rack open which is all of mine.
I was just trying to avoid opening and re configuring 150 songs!! Looks like this will just have to happen before I'm safe to go. I have a gig in 2 weeks I was hoping to try it. My other option is to use Splat. But this is a 3rd computer and I'm trying to be legal.
If it didn't work I have 2 laptops and can easily return to my tried and true Win Amp.