Ahhhhhh thanks. That would explain why other planets in my homeworld sector were properly populated, as I was issuing colonize orders while the colonizers were orbiting the homeworld. But the planets in the other sectors were colonized upon the colonizer discovering them, so by that time the ships didn't have a colony on it.
Thanks for the info
P.S. - Nice to hear some music in the retail version of SEIV---- the demo didn't have any at all.