I think I figured out the Soloist problem. In the Soloist dialog box there's a section labeled "Solo Which Choruses?" and the first chorus seems to default to "If no Melody" which means if the first chorus has a melody then it won't generate any solo and since the song I was working on only has one chorus and a melody it generated no notes. I switched the setting to "Yes-solo" and it worked ok.

The Melodist now seems to be working too but I don't think it's related to Soloist settings. I think I was just looking at the wrong track.

Russ