Lost several Favorites after a restart

[teedublu]

I have version 2.0.20.
Last night I restarted the system after doing some maintenance. There were no pre Sage startup problems, but Sage's GUI was initially very slow and unresponsive. Remote operations were not happening right away. Finally I was able to stop a recording because it started too late anyway.
I then find that Sage has deleted over 15 hours of Favorites! The only thing in common is that those favorties were all added relatively recently -- after I upgraded to 2.0.20 (from RC 2.0.17). I think. All of these Favorites did not have the manual delete option set, (kept defaults including Keep at Most ALL). There was no disk space issue, there are no error logs, and I couldn't use any of my undelete utilities to get any of the shows back (shows that I accidentlally delete, I can get back using Norton etc.).
I do have the property "seeker/clear_partials_and_unwanted_when_ir_off=false"
What else can I do to protect favorites? I set these shows to manual delete after this happened, but that doesn't explain why they were deleted does it? I think this problem is due to some startup issue -- a portion of sage checking disk space isn't responding in time or something. I've noticed this version seems to be slower to start, and I sometimes get a long pause of a blank screen between the intitializing popup (and sometimes less severely after waking from "sage sleep") and the main GUI (prevous RC17 didn't do that). Should I start Sage manually or put it into the Startup folder via a batch program with a timeout delay or something so the system is completely finished booting before sage starts. Can I set a startup delay option so I don't have to resort to clumsy batch file?
** Also, on a related Favorites note: How do I prevent favorites from being deleted when/if I delete a Favorite. I thought the property "seeker/clear_partials_and_unwanted_when_ir_off=false" took care of this, but Sage still prompts the warning message, so I'm not sure if my fav recordings are safe (Well Obviously they're not very safe. I have a RAID setup, but it looks like I need to revert to a scheduled backup/sync routine to protect my data from Sage's destruction! That's really sad cause that means I have to inspect the data integrity everyday before the backup/sync is performed. That's unrealistic of course, but mirroring/protecting from a hardware failure isn't protecting my recordings from Sage.
TW

[TunaBoo]

20 is going crazy for me, all kinds of problems. Day 2 after I isntalled it, it dropped a tuner. I emailed sage and they had me remove a line "ignore tuner". Who told it to ignore my tuner

Now today, it stopped allowing clients to connect for some reason.


*sigh*