Thanks for your feedback jrichard and drakkun! Working my way up to the actionbuttons method. gotta learn to crawl before I can run and all that

Thanks to all the wonderful and knowledgeable people on the forum. You guys rock !

Now with that said, can someone more experienced than I help me troubleshoot?

I followed the thread's instruction pretty much exactly, only replacing the command name for the appropriate druid spells. (trying to get a 4 druid team setup first) so instead of lbat or lbbt, i'm using wrathAT and starfireBT etc.

I modified the macro from the original posting to reflect my toon's names as follows

/target [mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt,target=wynterz]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift,target=summerz]
[mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,target=autumnz]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,mod:shift,target=springz]
/follow
/targetlasttarget

then per the example from the original post by pocalypse, proceeded to bind that macro to "O". nothing else is bound to that letter, and the tilde key was bound to something but I unbinded it on all 4 instances of wow.

whenever i switch to a screen and hit "tilde", all the rest of the alts will basicallyl say the lines of the code in /say
if i hit tilde from the main toon screen, all the alts will follow her, but they will also say the lines of code from the macro in /say
if i hit tilde from any of the other alts screen, none of them will follow the new main, and they will say the lines of the code in /say

I just started using macaroon, but I cleared all the keybindings left previously by trinity2 manually by editing out all the config lines that referenced trinity2 buttons.
when I was creating the hotstrings, for the modifier I was using the right control/shift/alt instead of the left one, but didnt think that would make a difference?

I've tried to change the macro in game to both directly refference ralt, rctrl, and rshift, same results.
reverted back to general alt, ctrl, shift, with same results.

Can anyone spot what it is that I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance once again for taking the time to read and help, and please let me know if anything is not clear.