Thanks for the response and help provided. That is what I have been doing. Load up IL2 turn on your program and test, close your program, change the .ini and reload your program and test again. As far as I can tell 2% or the occasional 3% jump is the best I can get and quite frankly good enough for me and much better than stock IL2. Haven't had that odd Left Right throttle bug anymore either.
When you said you used AHK's Debug did you mean that JoyID identifier you provided with Joy1-4? I fired it up to look closer and I do get a full range of every number 0-100.
Ghost33