Glad you like it and thanks for your remakrs, really appreciate it. 
Yes, the panning indeed caused me quite a headache. Since I am using stereo samples only (which mostly are recorded on their traidional posionts in a classical orchestra) I simply just couldn’t pan but only “balance” them across the stereo panaroma by isolating the two mono channels of each track, switching them to mono and then panning them farther left or right. I am using Audacity for the final mixing/mastering process and this seems to be the only way to position tracks recorded with stereo samples, that a come naturally in full center (for instance piano, harp or exotic percussion samples).
Dustin