Problem when importing WAV Files with negativ origin time

Man…this is a biatch.

So…I’ve done a complete appdata folder rename…updated to the latest RME driver–which changed the value of the negative offset, but didn’t stop it from happening. Anything recorded during the first measure seems to be affected–ie, not just starting at the top, but at the second or third beat–after THAT, it correctly timestamps it. Like if I start recording at bar 5, it will correctly stamp it (or at least within a second, which is odd…but, move to origin doesn’t move it, so…)

I downloaded Reaper. It has no such issue–same hardware. And importing these files INTO reaper show the weird time 23:59:59:000

where is this prerecord…is that in preferences? I’m now at defaults except that I needed to enable the control room to hear what I’m doing.