This is a follow up to the question I just asked. By playing around some with my design, I found the same thing happening when I just copied a component (a capacitor) and placed it on the board. If I use the netlist editor to connect one of the pads of the new component to a net, say net 2, then when I go to the spreadsheet edit area for net 2, I can't get net 2 to not route on layer 1 (want 0000, but can only get 1000). I don't know if this is related to the problems I was having with the gnd net in the previous posting, but it has the same symptoms.