Hi Noel,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, you are correct, I was in fact talking about 'Melodist Maker' accessed through the Melodist button.

And right again, I had set everything in that window to Even 8th expecting the behavior I've described previously...but you're saying that they are maybe not meant for that purpose then?
Ok, I'll have a read at manual and try to understand it better.
Still, I find the results obtained by making the changes I did a bit on the odd side...why can't the notation still reflect what the melodist is playing?!