question about autopattr and bpatchers

Hello. Im working on a patch that has seven copies of the same bpatcher. I use pattrstorage to save and recall presets throughout the patch including parameters inside the seven bpatchers. I ended up putting an autopattr object inside the original bpatcher, and then give each copy a uniqe scripting name. Is this the right way of doing it? (Ive set pattrstorage to @greedy 1)

Ive also noticed(freaked out the first time) that the pattrstorage-recall stoppes working on the bpatcher copies after I edit/save the original bpatcher, and I have to re-read the .json file. Is this normal?