first, thanks for the help regarding the no space in macro line. so basic but that fixed the follow main problem.

however, I tried to setup my combat macros as follows

#showtooltip wrath
/assist [mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt]wynterz;[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift]summerz;[mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl]autumnz;[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,mod:shift]springz;
/cast [harm]wrath

and if wynterz is lead, it works flawlessly
if any of the other 3 are lead, all 3 of them will assist and cast, but not wynterz?

i copied and pasted the handwritten macro to each of them, so typo shouldnt be a factor. what might be causing this?

to any that can help, the squirrels of darnassus thank you so that I can move out of there and test the combat macros on something else. :P