well I just visited another friend and his TDM system and I can confirm I am not a moron!!! he had never used the pop up takes as he tends to just do music, but I was able in 10 sec's to demonstrate this feature that I'd only read about in the manual. Is it only a TDM thing? It's certainly an ugly looking pop up menu, but it works beautifully. just the ticket for adr editing and perhaps foley too. I think I'm foing to have to switch on my G3 and install PT on that and see if it's any different? Am I wasting my time and should the manual say pop up takes feature in TDm systems only?