Ah, I'm glad to see you reading this thread, Toby. Please note at least two references in this thread that express a preference for Marquesas without trails.

(For those who aren't privy to the internal bug list, my one-line bug report for 1.1alpha3 was: "Yuck, trails on Marquesas? Ick, make it stop.")

We went back and forth a bunch and they eventually decided that it was OK as long as you could change it with the Select Mode button.

In practice, though, I still don't like having to turn the Marquesas trails off.