well when you are programming a cycle you have to keep in mind that it is just granbing the scenes from the fixture pages. So if you hit unit where the cycle is the scenes will still be on on the respective fixture page. So one thing that I do is assign a keyboard trigger of backspace to ALL the INIT buttons. That way if I want a blackout I can get one quick and blackout my whole rig.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,