Scott, read page 23 of your manual re Custom Panel. Note the bottom paragraph where it says "if there is ONE particular combination of settings". It's like a single panel memory button that always stays the same until you intentionally change it. Pressing the Custom Panel button will bring up whatever panel settings you saved for that button. Pressing any other panel memory button cancels the Custom Panel setting and the Custom Panel light will go out. A solution to the panel setup problem is to always insert the panel memory button that you want to use for the song at the beginning of the song sequence.
It is still not clear where you have the file of 14 songs. If you are using Custom Styles for all the songs, I suspect that things have changed since you saved the custom styles and you need to do an all custom style load from your backup before you begin to play. It is easy to get settings confused when you depend on Custom Styles. Custom Styles were great with older keyboards that took a lot of time for song setup loads from disk. The SD card is so fast that there is little need for them with the KN7000. I avoid Custom Styles like the plague.
I am totally baffled by your comment on Sound Files. I can't find the logic there so will not try to comment except to say that they should ALWAYS be included in the same file save and load as the Sequencer file.
This is also true with your comment on saving individual files. With the possible exception of All Custom files the difference in load times is almost negligible.