OK... This is starting to feel like a twilight zone episode. Everyone is responding to me as though I'm crazy, but I remember it clearly and it's working on my old machine! So somehow I applied the command that changes the behavior.
I've searched both ini files and I can't figure out which (if any) addressed this. I'm fairly certain it was Morten, no Noel who delivered it to us near the end of 2022.2 (2022.9?) testing when the new export dialog was introduced.
I've searched the Early r