Ok well, it seems to be playing nice at the moment, I deleted the fav list I had and added them back in and clicking the auto set and shield buttons and it seems to be working. I still can't change the cpu affinity though, the 3 cores are still just showing 1 cpu core in use each, everything else shows 01234567...not sure if I can or if I want to change it because the PPD is looking pretty good at around 27K with 1 vm client. I'll keep an eye on it and see if it continues to work ok.
Thanks for the help guys, I'll be back with more questions I'm sure