This may be old news to you VV Masters, but awhile ago I was having trouble with the reverse clip, trim thing, like many others...
Researching the posts I found the solution (as usuall, most of my questions are answered that way).

But I just discovered another way to get the in out points right after you reverse the clip.Thanks to SPOT"S book I was rereading a passage and he was talking about slip editing, and thought
" hmmmm....slip edit....spit preview screen ......yes ...yes I think it could work!"
So I put a clip on the time line that I had trimmed earlier in which I wanted it to go from b-c-d not c-d-a.(you guys know the routine) reversed it then slip edited to get my begining where I wanted and boom just the way I wanted it!
Cake!

THANKS SPOT for the great book and the tips within in the tips!
Maybe you guy's knew this already but I didn't see it in the posts I read so I thought I'd post it for anyone else who didn't know either.