Bob -- thanks for this. For the life of me, I thought it would not do what I wanted, which is exactly what it does when one sets paths as you've suggested and works the way you suggest working (which I always have, probably because you suggested it 20+ years ago).

But I think I have discovered why it usually doesn't work for me: I almost always open EDLs by going to the recently-opened list. For whatever reason, opening an EDL that way doesn't allow the Open SoundFile operations to look to the current EDL/session path. It reverts to the prior, "properly-opened" EDL's path. Or maybe it's the prior Open SoundFile path (as Windows would have it do, I think). I guess a flag isn't getting thrown when opening EDLs from the list.

Could it be time... for ver. 1.4?