I've got a standalone, and mine takes forever to do that regardless of whether something's recording or not. It really is a bit annoying. It would have been nice if they had set it up so that you could rearrange the passes, then approve the changes before it started going to work on them.

By the way, does anyone know of a way to put a hold on a season pass? Sometimes I'll be gone for a few weeks, and I won't want it to record certain programs, but I don't want to have to come back and set up the pass all over again. I know there's probably no way of doing this, but I thought I'd ask