T/A Cheetah SCS users step inside!

Ok.... before you bombard me, yes... I realize the PPP is the kats azz, but the Duster has a Cheetah shifter in it, and I really don't want to drop a bunch of money on a shifter as my "long range plan" may be going to a 2 speed. Shifter has been in the car forever so I'm not sure of the part number. My major/huge problem is that when I launch the car the shifter handle makes the 1-2 shift by itself... little hard to gain steam when the shifter is dropping automatically and sending me from 6300 rpm to 3500. I've looked it over and appears to me that the only thing this shifter relies on are the detents on the valve body.... seems kind of hokey to say the least as my cheap pos Hurst Promatic I had on the Mirada actually had the detents on the shifter.... I'm going to contact T/A and quiz them, but I thought I'd ask here first. It is a reverse manual valve body and you can basically pull the shift lever straight down from N to 2, the lever then "flips" over to the right in the gate where you pull it to third. Any help/comments/knowledge appreciated.