Thanks everyone, I appreciate your time and patience. I have no clue how that track got into offset mode. I would not intentionally do that but I have some pretty fat fingers.
 
 

turns out all of my pans were set in offset mode. I would love to delete that pan offset option from my workspace...

...Reassign the "O" shortcut key? 
 

I stuck my '' key dwn t stp this frm happening.

offset mode is very handy believe it or not.
 
the first thing I do when I receive a project I go through all the levels of all the tracks.
Vocals:
vocals sometimes have levels jumping all over the place. what I do is isolate sections of the song and automate levels of the track to be more consistent. IE- the verse is -6db / the chorus jumps to -1db
this way my compressor is not working over time / breathing trying to fight a level -10db to + 10db.
 
by doing early automation I can later go in to offset mode and then automate the whole track again and not have to worry about earlier automation moving again.
 
 
 

Guitarmech111
turns out all of my pans were set in offset mode. I would love to delete that pan offset option from my workspace...

I did exactly this.  Offset mode can be handy, but I want to be 100% sure I enter it deliberately, not by an accidental click of the O key.
 
In the key bindings section of Preferences, you can assign the O key to "no action" (or something like that).  This takes care of the problem.

I'm stuck all my tracks operate visually like they are panning but none of them do, they're all centered no matter where I set pan level. Oddly the meters show panning but not my ears!!