Originally Posted by mstams

Actually, manually shifting to 1 right before a stop did not produce the same jerking that I complained about in Sport Auto for quite a while. That's part of the reason I thought it was a software flaw rather than expected behaviour.

The really strange thing is that my car has virtually stopped the "jerking" just recently. I'm not sure whether it was the software reload that I had done earlier in the year, the DME control module that was replaced due to transmisison emergency run error, or the fact that I've been just driving the car much harder and mostly in manual mode for the past several months.

Whatever the cause, I'm just glad that it seems to have disappeared. What I get now is completely acceptable and more in line with what some have said is just characteristic of this type of car. In other words, it's still not silky smooth -- but that never was my complaint.