hey - is there a way to turn off the looping thing. Sometimes when I'm merrily editing away, I accidentally move my cursor up above the timeline - when I'm grabbing regions, and I'll drag across it, and before you know I set up a loop. So then I have to make the loop with no space so that it doesn't really loop anything.

Is there a way to turn it off all together?
Thanks,
Milt

Is there a way to turn it off all together?

Options - Prefs - Editing.
Enable Collapse loop region when no time selection is present.