Something to keep in mind when working with Nomads
Nomads creates a shadow copy of the panel you are working on (if none exists) by doing AND $80$ on the first character of every key for the panel. You are working with the shadow copy until the panel is saved or abandoned.
A good example of this is to shift insert on a field, then paste into a text editor. The record will start with a special character, not the one you were expecting and the asc() will be 128 higher.
So when you open a panel and on exit after no changes and get the messages save and abandon, the shadow record still exists because someone did not abandon their changes however many years earlier.