swamptooth
hey fred, i took a look at the guts of the midi file using a hex editor and all of the program change info is there.  the problem seems to be that their timestamps are 00 which puts them right at the start of the file.  it appears sonar does not display these events at the beginning of the file in event manager for some reason, though it does set the instruments in the patch selector in the midi file. if you select a track, open track inspector and change the patch using the <P>atch dropdown right above the fader and save the file it retains the new data but it still doesn't show up in the event inspector.  my feeling is it was thought of as redundant in the first place to display it when you can already see and change it.
 
hth, 
vid