[stumped]

i have a single character custom column which I call " read", and in it i set y, n or i ( i for in progress). I have had this column in use for a long time.

I used to be able to change an entry by clicking once on an entry to bring up a down arrow, then following that arrow down to the new value I wanted

but in 3.5, the behaviour has changed: i open up a saved search of all the in progress books i.e. those with an "i" value - I click on an "i" entry to bring up the down select arrow and immediately some sort of search kicks in - the highlighted book changes to the next entry that happens to have an i in the title, and the down arrow vanishes

i can still edit the field by manually bringing up edit metadata.screen .. but that is much slower

I have not changed any preferences , and I would like the old behaviour back if possible .
PS - as an extra check - if I bring up a different set of search serults , where I have some "n" entries in my single character "read" column, then click one of those "n"s, the highlight jumps to 1st book with an n in the title

without going back through re-installs of older versions, I am pretty sure that thai started only whit v3.5
rebooting the PC has not helped any
update i see that i can overtype a value by ignoring the arrow and simply typing the replacement character.
but the arrow fails as described above ( & actually I have more than just y, n, i, i sometimes have q for quit (for books I have abandoned) , g for game guides... )