1/1a. There are several Lamp On's in the control of these fixtures. There are Lamp On, On, On 2, On 3, all in the same tab under control. It's confusing. I got them to stay on when I was playing around at the theater last night, but I'm honestly not sure which control made it stay on. The MIB concept was throwing me. I thought it was intermittent failure of some sort. Also, eventually got the MIB feature turned off somehow. The request for raw DMX editing was just to skip these confusing points to feed the lights the exact DMX value they needed to get the signal noted in their manuals.
2. Yeah, perplexing. My files are tiny relative to the size you're talking. They are 0.5MB on desktop and 1.4MB when sent back from the laptop. Oddly the laptop file, when opened on the desktop, has everything in place page-wise (the pools are where I left them on each page), but the pools are just empty. Nothing has any content. Odd to be a much bigger file and be empty. I'll reach out to ACT to see what they think.
Thanks for the feedback.