with cyclone you should be able to just click on the cyclone object: a
file selector should popup where you can choose the max-patch to be
loaded (but then: i never have used this)

Thanks for the info - but when I click on the cyclone object it opens like an abstraction called cyclone.pd and just has a subpatch called PDDP_META...

Again, I will try this on Linux. I need to be working there anyway, I just don't have room for the machine right now so I'm stuck with my mac for Pd. Thanks for your help.

Kevin