Hey jrial, thanks for the response. I almost forgot about this post. It's good to know the reason why this is happening. I've been using the first option work-around of converting to lrf.
Can you believe I'm still reading scratchmonkey?! Need to make more time for reading!
. Oh and btw, Blindsight was a bloody good read. One of the better sci-fi's I've read in a long time.