Todd I'll lend a hand, since the problems are annoying me as well.

One needs to look at the line tail geometry. At least on my setup, rigged per Tripp and Mike's guide, the halyard when uncleated upwind still has enough tension on it from the shock cord to keep it out of the spreaders. The downside is this also pulls the halyard out of the cleat to begin with.

So, how do you fix this? The tail has to get to the tramp somehow...that I am going to think on for a few days.

A random thought is leading the halyard to a clutch ala big boat.