Help with Stella 6.7.1 and controllers

[HomerJ]

I am trying to setup Stella with all the controllers connected and then configure each game to use the proper controllers.  However, it's not working well.  It seems Stella want to override all my settings.

My hardware is an old Win11 laptop.

I have 2 Daptor2s and an iCode quad.

IDEALLY, I would have to pairs of paddles connected to the Daptors.  Then I would have two joysticks and two driving controllers in the iCode.

However, Stella insists on mapping on the physical controllers to all the virtual ones.  So, the paddles and the joysticks are all mapped together.  So, when a game starts, depending on to position of the paddles, stuff may just start moving around.  I will go through the input mappings and only map one physical controller to each of the joysticks and paddles properly.  All seems good.

But if i quit and restart, the mappings are all gone.  

I have tried letting Stella put the settings in %appdata% and i have tried-baseinappdir.  No matter what, I can't seem to get my mappings to stick.

Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance.