ah, i think you are right, suvega. does your macro reveal all of the toons (excepting all but the first found with a name starting with a letter) with one key press? if so, then i'd assume that it was targeting each in turn. i read on wowwiki (http://www.wowwiki.com/Making_a_macr...2Ftargetfriend) that the targetenemy and targetfriend macros could only be used once, and erroneously generalized.

though, now that i know about the 'instant' diminishing returns, i may want to make this all based on multi-press, such that one click is for one target, and two for two targets, etc. that way i can spam the key when there is a crowd, but otherwise scale it to the number of targets in front of me.

thanks for the feedback. sadly, i had to send my beastly laptop(i use it to run three of my four instances...it has a quadcore!) in to have its dvi-d port repaired, leaving me with only my dual-core pc with which to play. it can handle two instances at pvp friendly framerates, but can only run four well enough for pve. so, it may be a few weeks til i can test out the scalable version of this macro in pvp.

on the bright side, with the new caster/healer gear euality act of '08, i was able to respec my shammy healer to deep elemental and have been having a 'blast' thunderstorming alliance off cliffs, often sending multiple at once to their hilarious doom. also enjoying the new marksmen talents on my hunter. once i figured out how to disarm ret pallies from range, they became pretty worthless. of course, they still crush when they roll thick-- which since the alliance seems to be made up of 50% pallies-- tends to be the case these days. every dog has its day, i suppose. =)