Is anyone out there recording multi player audio sessions on logic

Question

I using an apogee 24 input system (symphony), logic 8.01. osx 10.4.11, macpro 2x266, 3 gig. I have been running logic for about 2 years. I am a big fan of the features and the especially the sound of logic.
I have been recording multi player sessions (session players and bands) in Pro tools TDM and HD for many years and would love to work strictly in logic.
I have recently been experimenting with recording some multi player audio/midi sessions with Logic. something like:
drums-10 audio inputs
bass-2 audio inputs
acou gtr 2 audio inputs
ele gtr 2 audio inputs
keys -midi controller-virtual inst.
click/loop-virtual inst
The Apogee hardware seems to be very solid ,and sounds great but I have run into some difficulties with logic's interface in these multi-player sessions.
1. The record enable status of various channels can be accidently turned on or off by selecting another channel. this makes it very tricky to adjust monitor volumes,sends, inserts and so on when trying to set-up a mix for the players.
2. when punching in and out there is a gap (hic-up) in the audio playback shortly after you punch out and also an artifact (small region) is often generated at the point of the punch out. ----set-up: punch on the fly,auto input, replace record.
3. after making a pass with the band and attempting listen. the faders are not active (on audio channels only) while the channels are record armed. So if one wants to adjust a playback/monitor volume the track has to be taken out of record ready which cuts the line of comunication between the players and the control room.
4. there are some serious problems editing audio on grouped channels. IE. group all drums and cut up the regions and do various edits the regions with-in the groups sometime don't act like they are grouped.
There seems to be little or no discussion of multi-player audio recording in any of the forums.
Is anyone out there tracking in a similar set-up and if so are any of these things causing problems for you
Thanks

Answer 1

thanks for the response
I do use the group record enable at times but the group situation in Logic is pretty cumbersome and often times one or more of the group may not be included in the current take so it ends up being a wash as far as convienence goes.
the independent monitoring status is great for what it is intended for but does not affect the situation of the faders not functioning when you monitor audio previously recorded on a record enabled track.
this problem did not exist in lp7 so I feel that it is an oversight or something that fell through the cracks on LP8
my set up is- replace record, auto input and I always have punch on the fly activated. Something I didn't mention in my earlier post about my set-up is, I am using software monitoring. The apogee symphony card is designed and has the speed to through put with about the same(1.6 millsec.)time delay as protools hd. Because I am recording 16 to 20 tracks at once in the box It seems to make sense to work this way. The apogee set-up I am using is 24 in and only 8 out.
with this set-up The hic-cup happens every time just shortly after punch out. this happens on every logic set-up I have ever used in various studios and hardware including an logic demo set-up by apple that I recently went to.
please check it out, it's a simple test
punching in and out is such an important part of audio recording it should be totaly seamless
these problems can be fixed, so I am just trying to raise the awareness of these issues
thanks
ml