[chris carter]

Properly label your tracks/files
Send consolidated files and edit your stuff
Print your levels around -12 to -18; don't pin the meters
Don't print effects... if you have to, print them 100% wet on another track.

Those are my biggest gripes. Oh yeah and one more that drives me nuts: If you are doing stuff in PTLE and you have limited tracks and must put more than one part on a track, KEEP IT CONSISTENT. I constantly get stuff where the low verse harmony part will be on one track in the first verse and then the second verse comes and it's some talking part on that track and the part that was there before is now on some other track. It's like the engineer just grabs tracks willy nilly. That drives me nuts because it takes more time to sort through that crap than anything else.