I do appreciate all of the willingness to help.  Please forgive my crappy attitude, but this is a place I can vent.  My clients don't wanna hear anything about my problems with Sonar.  They want what they want, on time.. 

I have covered all of the above mentioned ground, including the tut vid.
I've found that audio clips "stick" together if they overlap regardless of where/how I select they behave erratically. Ok, separate them on to new lanes right? ... Nope. Sometimes I can paste to a new lane other times it forces the paste on top of the previous source lane and I cannot drag a selected (yes, from the top pane) to a new lane without grabbing unwanted audio. It's embarrassing trying to explain why it takes me so long to edit some perc hits.


BTW how hard is it to have a renumber measure feature?  Has no Sonar composer ever had a scoring session protocol that started at bar 1 with a 4 beat count in?

Rant over... I feel better now.  :)

Hey, I know this thread is pretty old, but did anyone ever find the solution to this? I'm doing a lot of pasting with loop-like samples, many of which overlap and I'm getting the same problem. Did the update to X2a help? (I haven't done it yet)

I do not know but I am running X2a and cannot duplicate the problem. I grab clips by the header and only the clip I grab gets highlighted and moved regardless of how much they overlap.

Scook, thanks for the reply.
 
Sonar is starting to get on my nerves now, the X2a update apparently doesn't install on XP which is what I've been running on a formerly Vista laptop (yes XP is old, but it runs well and until now, I have not had a real reason to change). And with this bug, it looks like I'll have to upgrade my whole OS just to fix an issue that even a more basic program like Sony's Acid Pro didn't have.

X2 (not "a") was the last SONAR that will install and run on XP.   So it goes...
 
In regards to the problem, I've never seen it either.   As long as you're performing a single click on the clip's header (top strip) and not accidently lasso-selecting, I'm not sure how multiple clips could be selected at one time.    As was mentioned previously, what happens if you expand track lanes and select the problem clip that way?
 
Edit: I meant to add....   I believe a slight drag before pressing the left mouse button would qualify as a lasso.

Steve, yeah that's what I meant about X2a, since I'm still using XP I can't get those bug fixes at the moment.
 
Also, no, I'm not using the lasso tool, just single click on header or body of clip with smart tool. After seeing something about lanes in preferences (I hadn't used them before) I expanded and realized that most overlapping clips (the ones that behaved better) were alternating in two lanes. This problem seems to happen if the newly pasted clip goes onto the same lane overlapping a clip in the same lane, in this case when I select the new clip (again, with single click) it takes the tail end of the first with it.
 
Sure one way to work this is to work with lanes expanded to make sure the clip I've copied does not overlap one in the same lane, but if I have to do this, I might as well use two separate tracks, it's a pretty big inconvenience.
 
Any suggestions? And can anyone who DOESN'T have the issue, verify if your overlapped clips are going into multiple lanes?