The speed kept being put to the far left on the slider.
Looking in the preferences file i found the value -> "dblHexesPerTick",0,308642
seeing as a comma was used as a field delimiter i guessed this was the problem so I changed it to -> "dblHexesPerTick",0.308642
Problem solved.
So have you guys introduced a problem with localization? please check that you are saving a double value in english notation
I'm using danish language win 7 ) "," used instead of "." for fractions.
And now off to bed...

