Well changed my methods of maddness and sat down with a cup of coffee late last night and created this from scratch using the sapphire. With the logitech mouse that has the super hyper mouse scroll button was able to move very quickly when raising or lowering the ground level.
http://www.rage-of-fire.com/downloads/l3dt/Woot.jpg
Look forward to the new updates on sapphire.
Arron one problem did run into with importing my heightmap if I resized in L3DT when goto calc the water table run into a error saying not able to get enough memory. What steps do I take over come this problem?