Monitor setup for film sound-edit

Hi freaks,
My monitor setup is 3 Bm5a's and a Bm9 sub. The movie will be mixed LCR, not surround.
In the (Logic 8) prefs/audio/surround i've got it set to 5.1 with the L monitor on output 1, R on out-2 and C on out-8 of the digi 003 in my studio. Output 1-2 run throughthe Bm9. This way when not sound-editing the set functions normally for music.
The style is quite lowkey, intercut with documentary footage so i wont be needing the sub on a seperate channel as it wont be used.
The audio was recorded in M/S which makes things interesting (for me at least) translating this to the 3 channel format.
The M channel is currently set to surround with the front and rear surround channels turned off. If i need to pan it around i can turn on the front surrounds on a channel.
The S channel has a gain mono->stereo plugin with the right channel phase inverted. output set to surround.
Is there a rule for the relative loudness of the center speaker compared to the surrounds? To get them to match i have to drop the center by 20dB!
The mix will be done in a proper facility, but i want to have everything well sorted out. The Pyramix/Protools crowd aren't big Logic fans.

Output 1-2 are connected to the "main-outputs" on the 003 which are thus controlled by the volume knob. The center monitor on output 8 isn't. This is where i was getting the volume difference. I'm presuming they should be the same volume.

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