Yet Another Update to this post.

It looks like my problems is mostly fixed maybe this will help someone.
Go to Opt. > Preferences > then click the "Rec. Filter" button, its on the right side of the many buttons. Next check every check box and click OK. Doing this seems to fix the problem with the Volume control not staying put and the desired volume setting set by the user, but with any previously made song its still the same problem even with the Opt. settings made. Also it seems that events made to the midi mixer settings are not applied until you click the up or down arrow then it writes the event. Events are not written using the popup window.

It may be nice to click in the event windows "Volume, Pan, etc" and then press the up and down arrow keys on the computer keyboard to make the values change, or to be able to click in the event window and type in the value without the added popup window, the popup seemed a little confusing at first because of the size of the text entry area because it looked like if you pressed enter it would start a new line like a text editor does.

Next for Panning: Click in the window and type "R" for pan right or "L" for pan left or "M" for Middle or alternatively "C" for center - Or right click and select a panning selection from the context menu.

Other nit picks I have found was if you click the Cancel button on the Rec. Filter dialog box because you do not want to make changes, the dialog still makes the changes